By Michael Roberts Sep 05, 2011 The leaked release of the European Commission's working papers on the future of Top Level Domains highlights the impending collision between adherents of the present "multistakeholder" ICANN governance model, and an ever longer list of national governments who challenge that model. At the core of the controversy is the question of how ICANN can claim legitimacy in the DNS world when none of its Directors or Officers are elected. Even worse, its only answer, when challenged legally, is that it is responsive to its contract with an agency of the U.S. Government, which agency claims authority from the elected Congress of the United States through the agency's organic act, which nowhere mentions the Internet, ICANN, or the Domain Name System .... http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110905_icanns_unelected_crisis/