Low rhoperpendicular properties of the pomeron

Experimentally established properties of the Pomeron which cannot be explained within perturbative QCD are reviewed and their theoretical significance elaborated on. The derivation from QCD of a semi-perturbative Pomeron, which has such properties, is described in terms of infra-red divergences of reggeon diagrams and in terms of an infinite momentum winding number condensate due to instanton interactions. The analogy with the known solution of the Schwinger model is emphasized. Asymptotic freedom saturation is needed to justify this picture of the Pomeron and this is satisfied at collider energies if electroweak symmetry breaking is due to color sextet quarks