The need for worldwide regulators? (was Re: [IFWP] Re: Internet Governance?!)

[Carl Oppedahl]

At 04:35 AM 4/13/99 , Esther Dyson wrote:

>I think the notion of any worldwide body regulating spam or porn or content,
>which should be regulated within commmunities, is scary.  These are not
>issues that need to be decided on a worldwide basis.

I agree.  But why should domain names be any different?  Why do we need a
worldwide body (e.g. WIPO) regulating domain names?