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After viewing the very controversial blog of brial gorrell (www.delfindjmontano.blogspot.com) i made some research regarding ethical norms with the use of the internet and this article i have found on thi site http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1087.txt which posts…

Ethics and the Internet

Status of this Memo

   This memo is a statement of policy by the Internet Activities Board

   (IAB) concerning the proper use of the resources of the Internet.

   Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Introduction

At great human and economic cost, resources drawn from the U.S. Government, industry and the academic community have been assembled into a collection of interconnected networks called the Internet. Begun as a vehicle for experimental network research in the mid- 1970's, the Internet has become an important national infrastructure supporting an increasingly widespread, multi-disciplinary community of researchers ranging, inter alia, from computer scientists and electrical engineers to mathematicians, physicists, medical researchers, chemists, astronomers and space scientists.

   As is true of other common infrastructures (e.g., roads, water

   Reservoirs and delivery systems, and the power generation and

   distribution network), there is widespread dependence on the Internet

   by its users for the support of day-to-day research activities.

   The reliable operation of the Internet and the responsible use of its

   resources is of common interest and concern for its users, operators

   and sponsors.  Recent events involving the hosts on the Internet and

   in similar network infrastructures underscore the need to reiterate

   the professional responsibility every Internet user bears to

   colleagues and to the sponsors of the system.  Many of the Internet

   resources are provided by the U.S. Government.  Abuse of the system

   thus becomes a Federal matter above and beyond simple professional

   ethics.

IAB Statement of Policy

   The Internet is a national facility whose utility is largely a

   consequence of its wide availability and accessibility.

   Irresponsible use of this critical resource poses an enormous threat

   to its continued availability to the technical community.

   The U.S. Government sponsors of this system have a fiduciary

   responsibility to the public to allocate government resources wisely

   and effectively.  Justification for the support of this system

   suffers when highly disruptive abuses occur.  Access to and use of

   the Internet is a privilege and should be treated as such by all

   users of this system.

   The IAB strongly endorses the view of the Division Advisory Panel of

   the National Science Foundation Division of Network, Communications

   Research and Infrastructure which, in paraphrase, characterized as

   unethical and unacceptable any activity which purposely:

      (a) seeks to gain unauthorized access to the resources of the

          Internet,

      (b) disrupts the intended use of the Internet,

      (c) wastes resources (people, capacity, computer) through such

          actions,

      (d) destroys the integrity of computer-based information,

   and/or

      (e) compromises the privacy of users.

   The Internet exists in the general research milieu.  Portions of it

   continue to be used to support research and experimentation on

   networking.  Because experimentation on the Internet has the

   potential to affect all of its components and users, researchers have

   the responsibility to exercise great caution in the conduct of their

   work.  Negligence in the conduct of Internet-wide experiments is both

   irresponsible and unacceptable.

   The IAB plans to take whatever actions it can, in concert with

   Federal agencies and other interested parties, to identify and to set

   up technical and procedural mechanisms to make the Internet more

   resistant to disruption.  Such security, however, may be extremely

   expensive and may be counterproductive if it inhibits the free flow

   of information which makes the Internet so valuable.  In the final

   analysis, the health and well-being of the Internet is the

   responsibility of its users who must, uniformly, guard against abuses

   which disrupt the system and threaten its long-term viability.