France

[FR] Development of an international code of conduct for the Internet

IRIS 1997-3:1/4

Ad van Loon

European Audiovisual Observatory

During 1996, France proposed to the other Member States of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) a Charter on international co-operation on the Internet. In the framewrok of this proposal, France commissioned the drafting of a code of conduct for the Internet, to be undertaken in close collaboration and concertation with professional users, especially publishers, access providers, industry representatives, IT companies, those involved in electronic commerce, the World Wide Web Consortium, academics, as well as non-profesional users.

A working party has been working for four months on the definition of the guiding principles of the code, the rights of actors on the Internet, their technical possibilities, the engagements they could undertake, and the structures that they would like the public authorities to put into place.

The result of this work is available on the Internet.