At issue at the UN World Summit on the Information Society, currently underway in Tunisia, is whether the traditional U.S. role as guider and shaper of the Internet should be no more. Jon Zittrain suggests that all this focus on the domain name system and in particular who owns the root zone file is silly. (And perhaps, he suggests, part of a clever plot cooked up by techies worldwide to keep governments occupied while they go about the real business of running things.)