Legal frameworks --- are necessary to regulate behaviour in cyber space. Your point about how IHL developed to respond to armed conflict is well taken Scott. In the case of the OEWG and GGE outcomes, perhaps a first step should be to agree on basic principles of behaviour in cyberspace. Of course, given the nature of the cyber domain, this agreement would need to extend to all stakeholders, not only governments, in order to apply to activities in cyber space. A larger treaty could then be developed using this agreement as a basis. What do you think?

Source author: Asoke Mukerji asokem@diplomacy.edu