Russians back down from leaked U.N. Internet proposal
The Russian Federation has revised a controversial proposal to turn Internet governance over to the U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union, CNET has learned. The revised proposal tones down some of the anti-Internet rhetoric of the original, but still calls on the UN to help member states seize control of key Internet engineering assets, including domain names, addresses and numbering. 


[of course that is what they were pushing for from the beginning.  the tactic is to ask for way more than you want and then seem to back off, then people are more accepting of what they would not have accepted before…]