  Deep-inelastic diffractive scaling provides fundamental insight into the QCD
pomeron. It is argued that single gluon domination of the structure function,
together with the well-known Regge pole property, determines that the pomeron
carries color-charge parity $ C_c = -1~$ and, at short distances, is in a
super-critical phase of Reggeon Field Theory. The main purpose of the talk is
to describe the relationship of the super-critical pomeron to QCD.
