With the US/UN compromise on who should control Internet root servers now solved (or at least tabled until next year's Internet Governance Forum), ICANN's next fight is against the US government itself. That's because the contracts which let ICANN exist expire in about 18 months. After that, ICANN president Paul Twomey said, there's no telling what might happen. The contracts might simply be renewed unchanged, or there could be a total international overhaul. Let's hope for another compromise instead of a World Wide War.

For more on ICANN's fate:
- check out this eWeek article

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