7. The rights of appropriators to devise their own institutions are not challenged by external governmental authorities.

This will be a problem. We've already seen this to some extent in the CA Root Program space with CAs appealing to European regulators when they didn't want to follow the CAB Forum rules. With the Web mattering so much to so many governments, it'll be easy for defectors to ask a government to intervene even if we get the commons management right quickly.

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