SM wrote:
What people say and what they actually do or mean is often a very
different matter. An individual may have principles (or beliefs). A
stakeholder has interests. There was an individual who mentioned on an
IETF mailing list that he/she disagreed with his/her company's stance.
It's unlikely that a stakeholder would say that.
That's how the global routing table has bloated so much because
of requests from ISPs as stakeholders even though it is harmful
to not only end users but also ISPs, which is "fallacy of
composition".
ITU did it better for phone numbers.
Masataka Ohta