Basically a bit of technical BS about the US doesn't want to turn over the control of the TLD root servers to ICANN.
http://apnews.excite.com/article/200...D8B27F180.html
One line that jumped out at me though was "
Policy decisions could at a stroke make all Web sites ending in a specific suffix essentially unreachable."
Might want to hold off on grabbing those .XXX domains for awhile.