Haha I know what you mean - but realistically all the government really needs to do is provide specification and fund it, while having the courts uphold its rel

Haha I know what you mean - but realistically all the government really needs to do is provide specification and fund it, while having the courts uphold its reliability. for example, Google could provide the service - but they would have to avoid co-mingling the service with their existing one. They wouldnt have the same rights to the content within the email as they do with a gmail account. And they wouldnt be spam filtering small businesses into oblivion for trying to talk to each other directly. technically the service can be fulfilled by multiple vendors adhering to the same specification.