I see no reason why authoritarian non-democratic governments deserve "equal footing" with legitimate democratic bottom-up processes. Many in GAC are exactly this: non-democratic and authoritarian governments where the people are not allowed to govern themselves through free and fair elections. These govt's have no legitimate right to claim they deserve "equal footing" to rule over anyone, let alone the DNS."Equal footing" might be a catchy slogan that sounds nice on its surface to those who care about equality. But giving tyrannical govts "equal footing" to rule the root is a bad idea when you think it through.RobinOn Aug 28, 2014, at 3:08 PM, Avri Doria wrote: