'Splain this Lucy

Seven People Have Been Entrusted With The Keys To The Internet

Something I understand Okay, help me out here.  “ The basic idea is that in the event of an Internet catastrophe, the DNSSEC (domain name system security) could be damaged or compromised and we'd be left without a way to verify if a URL is pointing to the correct website. That's when the holders of these smart cards would be called into action: A minimum of five of the seven keyholders – one each from Britain, the U.S., Burkina Faso, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada, China, and the Czech Republic – would have to converge at a U.S. base with their keys to restart the system and connect everything once again. A minimum of five people is needed because each of the smart cards contains only a fraction of the recovery key necessary to set things right again. This means that no single person will hold all the power to resetting our little cyber world. [BBC via PopSci] ” Burkina Faso?  Trinidad?  Tobago? WTFF?  I mean, this sounds like a fine idea, especially if it will override an effort by Obama to shut down the nets, but why the five-of-seven verification?  I'm prolly way oversimplifying, but my techno pea-brain sees this as the lights going out prollem.  Why the hell can't anybody reset the fuse?  This sounds like something I should hate\, but don't know why.