I'm not sure that this can be concluded just yet. Following the link to the article about the leaked proposal:
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As recently as November 7, in an op-ed for Wired, ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure reiterated that "the conference will not examine management of critical Internet resources such as domain names and IP addresses. These functions are already performed by ICANN and regional Internet registries."
But that statement contradicted an earlier acknowledgment from Toure hat some "preliminary" proposals had indeed suggested the ITU take over some or all management of domain names and addresses.
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ITU hasn't been truthful, so when I read this:
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An ITU spokesman told Reuters that the coalition had abandoned the plan.
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I'm looking around for salt.