While this leak may change security rules, I confidently predict it will not change diplomacy, which has been based on the secret exchange of confidences between individuals and governments for many centuries.
Having "banged on about how digital will change diplomacy" he went on to suggest that someone write a book about how digital will also change power: "how we can marshal it to confront the threats to our existence.
In the beginnings of climate change policy, results from the natural sciences were essential for motivating the establishment of global change diplomacy.
China sees climate-change diplomacy as a way of boosting its soft power, and as part of its bilateral relationship with America (its stubborn behaviour in Copenhagen notwithstanding).
So the second idea for saving forests lies in changing economic incentives by paying people not to chop down trees an idea known in the ghastly jargon of climate-change diplomacy as "reduction of emissions from deforestation and degradation" (REDD).
It was clear that climate-change diplomacy had little to do with climate, and everything to do with global power politics and rich countries trying to prevent developing countries growing too much.
One American energy boss, a veteran observer of climate-change diplomacy, said he was amazed by "the manner and tone of how all this has been handled: it was inexperienced and immature".The Europeans were only too happy to take the moral high ground.
Mr. Biden's trip is the first by an American vice president in nearly 30 years, and it comes one month after Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to New Delhi, the capital, to discuss climate change and diplomacy.
Progress on immigration, gun control, tax, and overseas troop withdrawals has been slowest, while Obama's successes in tackling the economy, healthcare reform, climate change and diplomacy have proved far wider than many critics expected.
"If the State Department intends to blame its long string of failures on inadequate funding, then perhaps it should take a closer look at the money that is being lavished on global climate change, culinary diplomacy programs and other favored projects," she said.
One advantage already described, diplomatic skill, blends institutional and attitudinal change, for diplomacy would never have succeeded had not the Byzantine statesmen been far more curious and knowing than Justinian's 5th-century predecessor about the habits, customs, and movements of the barbarian peoples.
