Apart from the question of courting international travelers, any company trying operate a network spanning multiple continents faces significant technological challenges.
Announcing the move, Mr Gove told a meeting of magistrates he accepted that the new charges had not worked and said his department would now look again at the whole question of court charges.
He took an equivocal position in a 2004 decision on the question of whether courts may ever consider claims of political gerrymandering.
Between now and July 1, when the court is to begin operations, the question of the court's authority over peacekeepers is certain to be raised again.
But experts said the question of the court's jurisdiction would linger.
"There is, however, an important question of the court having the confidence of the communities it serves and there is a certain amount of asymmetry at present given that we have two justices from Scotland and one from Northern Ireland.
California's appeal to the Supreme Court, Yarborough v. Alvarado, No. 02-1684, ransed an issue that transcended the particulars of the case, making the appeal significant for the broader question of federal court jurisdiction to review state convictions.
Addressing the separate question of the court's "own judgment," Justice Kennedy suggested that the flow of death penalty cases for child rape could overwhelm the country's criminal justice system.
Even if this proves to be true, the main question of this court case, which undoubtedly will take several years, will be the same one that undermined its predecessor: will the court be able to clearly distinguish between party and state?
Because the question of federal court jurisdiction has become so complex, the Supreme Court may have granted the California state case today along with the federal case to ensure that it would be able to reach the merits of the three-strikes question without being stymied by a jurisdictional barrier.
