coming back to this question after reading material below --- I came back to this question after reading the material below. It seems that the OEWG and GGE are producing outcomes, slowly but surely, on a rough consensus on responsible State behaviour in cyber space. This could perhaps lead to a treaty ultimately but these things are incremental. It took nearly 50 years for a convention to prohibit a range of activities involving biological weapons under any circumstances to be adopted after the 1925 Geneva Protocol which only prevented their use in war time.

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