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I think there are more effective ways for governments to intervene. There are essentially two separate issues:

1) Permanent allocation of names and numbers

2) Interoperability standards and rights allowing us to link names and numbers to service contracts.

Once these issues are regulated in a consumer/citizen friendly way (like they did with phone numbers in the UK), governments could provide some sort of default service on top of it, but in my view this is not the most important part.