http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/16/us_wins_net_governance/

Quoting Kieran McCarthy:

...

"But following an intense US lobbying effort across the board, the
Americans have got their way. Countless press articles, each as
inaccurate as the last, formed a huge public sense of what was
happening with internet governance that proved impossible to shake.

"Massive IT companies - again, mostly US and thanks to intense US
government lobbying - came out publicly in favour of the status quo.
And the EU representative, David Hendon, confirmed to us last night
that in political and governments circles - at every level - the US had
pushed home its points again and again.

"A letter from US secretary of state Condoleezza Rice sent to the EU
just prior to the Summit also had a big impact. Hendon said the UK's
position was pretty much set by then, but that it may well have had
an impact on other EU members. The exact wording of the letter has
yet to come out but it is said to be pretty strong stuff" ...

...

"Everyone of course claims victory but the reality is that the US has
won out by shouting loudest. Expect to read numerous press articles
that claim the United States has saved the Internet from a fate worse
than death. That was never true, and there were never any good real
reasons why the US should not cede some control to an international
formation of governments. But reality and politics have never been
good bed-fellows."