Araraukar wrote:Glen-Rhodes wrote:What's the purpose of international law, if it doesn't standardize things so all states know what to expect?
There's a precedent to leave it mostly undefined in WA#51 Humanitarian Transport:Omigodtheykilledkenny wrote:4. CALLS UPON nations to adopt a standard for identifying their humanitarian transports, such as painting the hull of dedicated humanitarian vessels completely white or flagging the vessels with an internationally recognized symbol associated with humanitarian aid,
5. URGES nations to follow this code of conduct and to inform the international community what standards they have adopted to identify their humanitarian transports,
OOC: It made me suddenly feel old to remember being around when the debate for this was foing on.
I'm okay with that.
Or we could require people to register their surrender signal in order to have it recognized and then have some standard forms like the flag or hand signals.