Because, contrary to popular views, there is no "government of the world". So, since the US government needed that (it provides security to US businesses), the

Because, contrary to popular views, there is no "government of the world". So, since the US government needed that (it provides security to US businesses), they organised and funded it (as everything else, with US taxpayers money, and savings from investors in US and abroad.) Now, the US government decided to commit temporary-seppuku, so a number of things will happen: * state-level government will use their local-taxpayer money to fund similar efforts (with duplication of effort), or share it with everyone * another country or block of country will do it, and decide whether they want to "share". (I suppose Russia and China have more of an incentive to keep their CVE DB private, given their level of dis-integration with US economy ? EU maybe ?) * an international, ad-hoc organisation is created to share the funding (something like NATO.) Multi-latteralism is not exactly in fashion this days, but if EU does it, it will be "international" by design since we're not really a federation ; so, states in "Southern Canada" are welcome to join. * or none of that happens, the CVE db rots for a while, until a sufficiently embarrassing cybersecurity problem occurs, and the CVE db is deemed worthy of the "10% you need to bring back" by President Elon. Pray your company, families and friends are never on the wrong side of the "reverse-Chersteron's fence".