Quietly, symbolically, US control of the internet was just ended

At a luxury hideaway in Morocco, two years of talks on Icann's running of the internet finished with a deal to put multiple global stakeholders in charge

It's early March in Marrakech, and a gleaming conurbation of hotels run in the kind of rare equilibrium of slick organisation and genuine friendliness that Tyler Brili(C) might dream about.

Inside, the people who run the internet's naming and numbering systems have been meeting with some of the governments who would rather be doing the job themselves. Eventually they cut a deal, and then negotiators from countries mostly in the northern hemisphere staggered blinking into the sunlight and splayed like lizards around the azure swimming pools, almost too tired to drink. Almost.