The US government was in the business of growing and maintaining the Internet. Within the last two years they wanted to get out of that business. They wanted to hand the administration over to a non-profit global corporation.
Governments are important constituents to that process.
In fact the Government Advisory Committee was kicked off here. We saw a broad cross-section of the community of nations express strong support for the idea that the Internet is best managed by the Internet community itself. Read more related articles on Domain Registrars.