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+Network Working Group                          Internet Activities Board
+Request for Comments: 1087                                  January 1989
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+                        Ethics and the Internet
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+Status of this Memo
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+   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.
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+   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.
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+   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.
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+IAB Statement of Policy
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+   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.
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+   The U.S. Government sponsors of this system have a fiduciary
+   responsibility to the public to allocate government resources wisely
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+Internet Activities Board                                       [Page 1]
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+RFC 1087                Ethics and the Internet             January 1989
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+   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.
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+   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:
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+      (a) seeks to gain unauthorized access to the resources of the
+          Internet,
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+      (b) disrupts the intended use of the Internet,
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+      (c) wastes resources (people, capacity, computer) through such
+          actions,
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+      (d) destroys the integrity of computer-based information,
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+   and/or
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+      (e) compromises the privacy of users.
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+   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.
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+   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.
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