EU proposed an international body to govern the Internet, but the U.S. doesn’t agree with this proposal, saying that this idea will bureaucratize the network.

Many groups including the International Telecommunication Union (Geneva) fell that the Americans have too much control over the Internet. Currently, the U.S. Commerce Department approves changes to the Internet’s “root zone files”, which are administered by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann. Practically the Americans have effective control over the Internet. EU proposed that the new body could set guidelines on who gets control of what Internet address - the main mechanism for finding information across the global network - and could play a role in helping to set up a system for resolving disputes.

Other countries demanded that an UN body should control the Internet. Some experts said that the countries could ignore Icann and set up their own domain name system. The United States replied saying that only a unique addressing system is what makes the Internet so powerful.

The United States created the original system of the Internet and funded much of the its development so they do not conceive loosing the Internet governance.