@Andre: definition of cybercrime --- You know better than me that crime is crime whether committed in the physical space or the cyber space, what committed by traditional means or by digital means.

You also know that the law is always one step behind the practice, or the science and technology are one step ahead of legislation. A universal definition could be of course useful but, in particular in relation with the digital world, it can become obsolete the day after adoption.

International action does not depend necessarily on the existence of a definition, although for instance there was no timely action in Rwanda in 1994 because of the relevance of the definition of genocide. You saw that we do not have an universally agreed definition of democracy but we have enough "descriptors" of democracy.

Last but not least and that's not related to international law and diplomacy, we do not have a definition of beauty and ... yet...

Source author: Petru Dumitriu PetruD@diplomacy.edu