[jmcdiesel]

What duty? You think that domain registration is by default a duty of the government? The government has no real say over the internet - and the little it has should be removed. Thats like saying space travel or planetary colonization should be reliant on the approval of a government... its not their place to be in charge...

[BearGoesChirp]

Or saying the mail system should be.

There isn't an approved list of what the government handles. Much of politics is disagreements in this. But it is still a point worth discussing, and saying that it cannot be the government's duty because it currently isn't a valid reason to stop discussion of it.

[jmcdiesel]

"That doesn't seem quite right, because it was still the government that allowed the private sector to take over a duty of the government."

You aren't talking about discussing it, you're already calling it a duty of the government that the government allowed to be taken over. The discussion is fine, just dont start it from a stance already...

[BearGoesChirp]

Good point. A bit late to go back and edit it.