This plan is already well on the way to establishing international agreements on e-commerce taxation and other issues that will affect state and local government across the United States, possibly in ways not yet even realized.
Electronic commerce is global by definition and essentially unrestricted by geography.
Yet legal jurisdictions are and will remain national. Coping with this incongruity requires international cooperation and agreements in areas that traditionally have been national prerogatives. Local and state governments that have been following the U.S. federal government's proposed framework for electronic commerce now suddenly face a new reality. The U.S. government is under pressure to conform to what some members of the international community feel is necessary to adequately safeguard citizens. Policies adopted by the United States on other key areas such as taxation, consumer protection, and authentication or digital signatures, will also have to fit in with what other nations want and will accept.