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Media Advisory
Internet Society
--Prague, 17 June 1994. The Internet Society Board of
Trustees at its meeting this week in Prague, started
proceedings responsive to public concerns about the
behavior and practices of small numbers of Internet
end users and service providers. Examples of such
incidents range from propagating massive numbers of
unsolicited and unwanted Email messages across the
network, to marketing tactics of service providers
that fail to reveal the actual nature and costs of
services rendered. Also involved are guidelines for
addess and name registration activities of scores of
national Internet Network Information Centers around
the world.
The announcement of this action was made to nearly
2000 attendees from 110 countries at the Society's
International Networking Conference (INET'94) being
held in Prague in conjunction with the Joint European
Network Conference.
The Board in taking this action noted that incidents
harmful to the Internet and its users have occurred in the
past, and that some ethical guidelines were adopted several
years ago by the Society's Internet Architecture Board (IAB).
The intent is to develop a current set of guidelines through
open proceedings involving the IAB as the body which oversees
the architecture of the Internet and adopts its standards,
together with the Society's Advisory Council of the 85
companies, foundations, and government agencies which constitute
its organizational members, and the Internet community at
large. It is important that there be a common widespread
consensus regarding what conduct is unacceptable in using
the Internet and in providing services.
The Chair of the IAB is the noted research director,
Dr. Christian Huitema at INRIA in Sophia Antipolis, France
<Christian.Huitema@mirsa.inria.fr>. The Chair of the
Advisory Committee is MCI network engineering director
Michael E. Conn <0004387451@mcimail.com>.
Subsequent Media Advisories will provide further information
regarding the specific activities and processes of these
bodies related to this proceeding.
For further information, contact: Tony Rutkowski, Executive
Director, Internet Society. The Society is the global
international organization for the Internet, its technologies,
and applications.
12020 Sunrise Valley Dr. suite 270
Reston VA 22091
USA
tel: +1 703 648 9888
fax: +1 703 648 9887
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Internet Society Resolution No. 94-____
Since the internet will only function effectively in the
spirit of cooperation, the Board of Trustees:
1. Recognizes the need for an Internet Code of Ethics
and the importance of educating the Internet community
about it.
2. Recommends that the Internet Architecture Board (IAB)
and the Advisory Council be asked to propose an
appropriate code of ethics for consideration by the
Board of Trustees no later than its next regular Board
meeting (December 1994).
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