For most purposes each group will have autonomy to act as it thinks best and these levels of co-ordination would only be engaged under agreed circumstances where the network as a whole is threatened by the actions of one group or where, by common agreement, there is mutual benefit in doing so.

IMO the best way to generalize this is to appropriate the principles of p2p organization as meta-principles that apply across many levels of organization. Co-ops, trusts, associations, towns, bioregions, etc. are all autonomous peers cooperating in formal and informal networks or confederations. The idea of cooperative individualism is to maximize both autonomy and consensual coordination as close to the edges and end-nodes of the networks as possible.