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I suppose trade deals would require too much coordination between those inept national administrators. I guess it is also too bad that there are no international standards like TCP/IP becuase that would require coordination as well. And its a good thing there is no coordination, that way we dont't have any international spying programs on citizens.

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Yes you are quite correct: the trade deals require an order of decade to make them work, and that's among friendly governments with aligned interests. And true, the successful and now notoriously known spying projects with global reach are mostly single agency efforts.

But I'm not sure why TCP/IP is there: it's an institutional standard adopted later internationally. The IP stack doesn't even quite map to that neat ISO 7 level hierarchy conjured by international panel in their ivory tower.

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