摘要：The International Code of Conduct for Information Security (ICCIS) is an international effort to develop norms of behaviour in the digital space, submitted to the UN General Assembly in 2011 and in revised form in 2015 by member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). According to its sponsors, the Code is intended to push forward the international debate on international norms on information security, and help forge an early consensus on this issue. With its connections to the SCO, the Code raises significant concerns over ambitious but ambiguous poster of international actors especially the Western powers towards their clandestine behavior in the sphere of digital space. The SCO states have been successful in building consensus around the Code given the ‘post-Snowden’ and ‘Arab Spring’ international political environment. Moreover, the SCO states confidently view the Code as a vehicle to redefine notions of sovereignty and territorial integrity to the digital space. Terrorism, extremism, separatism, and information security are posing fundamental challenges to sovereignty and territorial integrity of nation states. Some of the dominant states that exercise not only political, diplomatic, economic and military power over weak states to bulldoze their will are now very much capable of exploiting the digital space to shake the very stable foundations of sovereignty and territorial integrity. The close outlook of the International Code of Conduct for Information Security maintains a balance view towards safety and security for all. Due to its origin from the SCO member states, the Code already exists as a parallel binding agreement within Shanghai Cooperation Organization. All the new member states joining SCO will have to endorse and implement the SCO agreement on Information Security. Pakistan and India as new members will not be exception to it..
