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Even if the gTLD space is so-called "public" it need not be *owned* by
government. Does the Internet fall under the bounds of a single
government? No. It must be arranged under a cooperative global entity.
If you say that it is a government function than this would be the
United Nations or some derivative.

But it need not be a government function, or at least not in the sense
that it falls on our geopolitical ones.

It can quite simply be a cooperative arrangement on the Internet. Much
like now where the gross majority of the 'net points to a handful of
well-known root servers. One might even consider moving DNS from a
hierarchical model to a distributed push/pull model like the USENET.

Trademark is a red herring. It is entirely insignificant, both with
respect to the % of disputed domains and with respect to technical
operations. Do you really expect the worlds governments to solve the
problem of international intellectual property rights overnight? Then
why bestow the DNS system on them? The monitoring and enforcement of
intellectual property falls solely in the hands of the holder, *NOT*
government. Trademarks holders are trying to get something for free, the
cost of which is too great to consider.

	Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Rahul Dhesi [mailto:dhesi@rahul.net]

This can occur only if the "ownership" of the top-level domain resides
with some government.