Payment wasn't the reason that the US, UK, Canada, etc... aren't signing, it's the idea of opening up "Internet" governance into an ITU treaty. Once you start m

Payment wasn't the reason that the US, UK, Canada, etc... aren't signing, it's the idea of opening up "Internet" governance into an ITU treaty. Once you start mixing Internet and telecommunications governance, you open the door to a treaty that would force countries with a strong free speech tradition to enforce the censorship laws of other countries.