[At-Large] (No so) Serious Allegations

[Patrick Vande Walle]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:38:04 -0500, Ross Rader <ross at tucows.com> wrote:
 
> The table belongs to the users, engineers and network operators.  
> Governments, and pretty much everyone else, are the latecomers.  
> Scaling the discussion is a very important issue, but I certainly  
> don't hope that your implication is that our beloved governments can  
> solve this problem for us.

Being latecomers does not mean they are irrelevant. Some things governments
are actually useful for in this context are:

- Consumer protection laws (domain name registrants vs registries and
registrars are an example)
- Data privacy laws
- Market regulation (anti-trust, etc)
- Fund research
- ...

Patrick