A very valid point, --- Eduardo. This topic of new legal instruments to regulate an international framework for cyberspace is becoming more urgent with the passage of time and emergence of new technologies and their applications. A couple of years ago, many in the Western legal fraternity felt this idea was not relevant since existing legal frameworks could address such issues. Today, the jury is out on this, for all the reasons that you have given in your HT comments on this subject above. I feel that if the Open Ended Working Group of the UN General Assembly can expand its scope of discussions to cover the different aspects of cyberspace and securing this domain (and that must include the use of cyber technologies for SDGs), then a foundation of discussion would be available for starting negotiations on an international framework for cyberspace.

Source author: Asoke Mukerji asokem@diplomacy.edu