United States government available to relinquish control over Internet Governance

What impact could have this decision?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/us-to-relinquish-remaining-control-over-the-internet/2014/03/14/0c7472d0-abb5-11e3-adbc-888c8010c799_story.html

This decision appears to move towards more democratization about the Network use, but might actually not be. The reasons about this debate are mostly of economical nature. The ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), founded in 1988, is an international no-profit organization that holds the governance of the Internet. It is responsible for management the IP addresses and for the first level domain name system (Top-Level Domain, to simplify the suffixes .com, .it, .eu, .net, etc.).

ICANN gets its functions by other agencies, such as the IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority), most of them dependent by the United States government,  but established and administered in accordance with the ideals of the Internet pioneers.  So we must understand what will be the resulting of this organization:  the founding principles of Internet (sharing, cooperation, freedom of access, ...) will be yet privileged?

The choices that will be made will affect not only on the political and economic aspects, but in general the social lives of everyone and their development. The democratic nature of the use of the Net affects social development, and consequently, the economic and knowledge development  of individuals, communities, nations and peoples. So it is a decision that should be taken with a lot of wisdom, picking up the legacy and the dream of the founding fathers of the network and of the WWW.