The governance challenge stems from the fact that cyberspace is a combination of virtual properties, which defy geographical boundaries, and physical infrastructure, which fall under sovereign jurisdictions. Control of the physical layer can have both territorial and extraterritorial effects on the virtual layers.
治理挑战源于网络空间是虚拟资产的组合，它既不存在地域界限，也不属于物理基础设施，因此不归属主权司法辖区管理。物理层的控制可以对虚拟层产生域内和域外效力。同时可以从低成本的虚拟领域对资源稀缺而昂贵的实体领域发动攻击。