Don't tell the governments that no one is "in charge" of making sure there is enough food in New York every day! Don't tell ICANN that no one has to approve in advance the many decisions that have an impact on that vital result! As you know, the appropriate response to Christopher Wilkinson is that, of course, governments are in charge -- and they should spend their time trying to figure out how to regulate spam or other clear wrongdoing. The absence of a "government" at the top of a world-wide command and control hierarchy is no reason to eliminate systems that produce order from the bottom up. Indeed, the impossibility of creating a single global authority that could possibly regulate the net (without killing it), is the main reason to protect decentralized decision-making with respect to policies followed by the many networks that interconnect to form the net in the first place.