K06 assurance and procurement architecture
Selected international-law positions Official-Source Review
Direct answer
Existing international law and the UN Charter apply to state conduct in cyberspace.
Authority and evidence boundary. K06 publishes reference architecture, source review, machine-checkable dependencies, procurement scope, and test-evidence formats. These records do not certify a facility, award a contract, authorize an operation, prove deployment, establish current operation, or transfer regulatory or command authority.
Supported bounded propositions
- Existing international law and the UN Charter apply to state conduct in cyberspace.
- IHL applies to and limits cyber operations during armed conflict, including protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure.
Unavailable or unresolved
- States do not uniformly agree on every sovereignty, due-diligence, countermeasure, imminence, or armed-attack threshold.
- The reviewed materials do not resolve a named operation's legality.
Official source records
Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts · Cyber operations and harmful information
Currentness qualification
K06 point-in-time review of selected official United Kingdom, French, European Union, Australian, Republic of Korea, Canadian, United Nations, and ICRC sources completed on 2026-08-15. The review records publication status and bounded propositions only. It is not a legal opinion, facility applicability determination, operational authorization, or prediction of later currentness; no public runtime monitor and no live-host observation are claimed.