This document discusses sovereignty and governance in cyberspace, focusing on three key sites: the NSA and encryption policy, WIPO and anti-circumvention measures, and ICANN and internet identifier management. For each site, it analyzes the rhetoric used, realpolitik motivations, governance processes and challenges, and lack of legitimacy and effectiveness due to limited stakeholder participation and global technical constraints. Overall it argues that regulating technology and technologizing regulation in these areas has faced major challenges due to differing stakeholder positions and the difficulty of controlling cryptography, code, and network protocols on an open global internet.