The Internet Society yesterday read a very direct, unambiguous statement on the role of the USG in the ICANN process. Some excerpts:

Finally, as the MOU has become a symbol internationally of US control over the DNS, it can be argued that the MOU, which was originally designed to support and shore up ICANN in its early days, is now actually hampering ICANN’s continued development and their legitimacy in the eyes of many.

ISOC believes a clear unambiguous signal needs to be made internationally that we are entering a new phase and taking steps to move to the private sector model per the original vision of the US Government.

I heard a zillion times that ISOC was the USG’s best friend. I hope this will definitively show it is untrue.