Editing Border (section)

=== Airspace borders ===
[[Airspace]] is the [[atmosphere]] located within a country's controlled international and maritime borders. All [[List of sovereign states|sovereign countries]] hold the right to regulate and protect air space under the international law of [[Air sovereignty]].<ref name="Air law">{{Cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/air-law |title=Air law |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]] |access-date=26 July 2018 |language=en |archive-date=12 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412004947/https://www.britannica.com/topic/air-law |url-status=live }}</ref> The horizontal boundaries of airspace are similar to the policies of "[[International waters|high seas]]" in maritime law. Airspace extends 12 nautical miles from the coast of a country and it holds responsibility for protecting its own airspace unless under [[NATO]] peacetime protection.<ref name="Air law"/><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://ac.nato.int/page5931922/-nato-air-policing |website=[[Allied Air Command]] |title=NATO Air Policing |publisher=[[NATO]] |access-date=28 February 2019 |archive-date=26 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190326090020/https://ac.nato.int/page5931922/-nato-air-policing |url-status=live }}</ref> With international agreement a country can assume the responsibility of protecting or controlling the atmosphere over International Airspaces such as the [[Pacific Ocean]]. The vertical boundaries of airspace are not officially set or regulated internationally. However, there is a general agreement of vertical airspace ending at the point of the [[Kármán line]].<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Reinhardt |first=Dean |date=June 2005 |title=The Vertical Limit of State Sovereignty |url=http://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a436627.pdf |archive-url=https://archive.today/20181115132014/http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a436627.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=15 November 2018 |type=Master of Laws |publisher=[[McGill University]] |pages=3}}</ref> The Kármán line is a peak point at the altitude of 62&nbsp;mi (100&nbsp;km) above the Earth's surface, setting a boundary between the atmosphere (airspace) and [[outer space]] (which is governed by [[space law]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.inesap.org/bulletin20/bul20art08.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515202422/http://www.inesap.org/bulletin20/bul20art08.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 May 2008 |title=Bulletin 20 – Space Weapons Ban: Thoughts on a New Treaty |date=15 May 2008 |access-date=26 July 2018}}</ref>