As I said below, I think people are ignoring many different approaches compatible with the statement, and so they are confusing the statement with a call for international laws or enforcement (as you said, “attempts to make it as a basis for laws”), which is not mentioned. I suggested some alternatives in that comment:
”We didn’t need laws to get the 1975 Alisomar moratorium on recombinant DNA research, or the email anti-abuse (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) voluntary technical standards, or the COSPAR guidelines that were embraced globally for planetary protection in space exploration, or press norms like not naming sexual assault victims—just strong consensus and moral suasion. Perhaps that’s not enough here, but it’s a discussion that should take place which first requires clear statement about what the overall goals should be.”
As I said below, I think people are ignoring many different approaches compatible with the statement, and so they are confusing the statement with a call for international laws or enforcement (as you said, “attempts to make it as a basis for laws”), which is not mentioned. I suggested some alternatives in that comment:
”We didn’t need laws to get the 1975 Alisomar moratorium on recombinant DNA research, or the email anti-abuse (SPF/DKIM/DMARC) voluntary technical standards, or the COSPAR guidelines that were embraced globally for planetary protection in space exploration, or press norms like not naming sexual assault victims—just strong consensus and moral suasion. Perhaps that’s not enough here, but it’s a discussion that should take place which first requires clear statement about what the overall goals should be.”