UN for the Internet

Something that doesn't make any sense to me this morning is why the UN thinks it should be allowed to have control over the internet. For those of you that don't know, the internet is governed by ICANN, an organization overseen by the Department of Commerce. Starting today, or rather last nite due to time difference, there is a UN summit dealing directly with how the internet should be governed and who has the control. Apperently the UN thinks that it should have jurisdiction over the content of the internet and its running. Nevermind the fact that the internet was first created in the US, the US put forth large amounts of money in the early years developing the technologies, that there is admittly no problems with the current governence, or that fact that the last large project the UN oversaw, the Oil-for-Food program, had corruption on a massive scale that funnelled billions of dollars inappropriately to say the least. In addition, no one has been fired for having billions of dollars funnelled to Saddam. Thats not exactly true, one guy did get fired but he got his job back with back pay in 2 short months. What exactly has the UN done to think that it is qualified to take over how the internet is run when it can't point to any successes that would indicate it would go well.

UPDATE:
It seems the rest of the world has thrown in the towel already on the issue and the delegates at Tunisia have agreed to let the US handle the internet. Apperently unilateralism can work...