This assumption is based on lack of understanding of the low-level nature of DNS and how that impacts access. The DNS must still be established before the RealNames can work. It's a question of level of access. With the stroke of a delete key, whole countries can be blacked out from the rest of the net. What we have developed in Name.
Space is users control over their own domains.
Control over your domain means greater control over your access. In cases such as ecn.org, when their equipment was seized, had they the control over their domain records, they could have nearly instantly set up resources in almost any other location. There have been many developments in our lab to enable greater control over ones own content and access based on creative uses of domain names and existing protocols and server configurations. Web relays, email forwarding, soft virtual hosts, and soon secure dynamic dns. The technology is always ahead of users and markets, and necessarily so.