Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
The stakeholders in the Internet don't even align to countries. My own
employer is relatively small but was founded in the UK, moved its
headquarters to the US and has operations in a dozen more countries and
many times that number of affiliates. The same is even more true of the
likes of Google, Cisco, Apple, IBM, Microsoft etc.
You miss the most important stakeholders, the end users aligning
to countries.
Masataka Ohta
PS
Of course, countries acting as representatives for telephone
companies are just as bad as countries acing as representatives
for ISPs.