http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/interne...eut/index.html
If you don't want to read it all...
ICANN wants to remove the public from it's board, and have only government and business representivives. Supposedly this would benifit US business so much that people in other countries are pissed.
They also want a 25c tax on all new domains to fund their orginization.