- General Internet ethic: sharing and cooperation
- Copyright
- Copyright or hyperlink to copyright should be on each document
- No unauthorized commercial use
- Documents should include date, revision number and revision date
- Authorship
- Clearly identified on each document
- Inclusion of e-mail address encouraged
- Identification of primary author clearly retained during reuse
- Linking to documents at other sites
- Encouraged
- Not required, but polite to inform primary author
- Desirable that the primary author not change URL after posting
- Indexing of documents at other sites
- Encouraged
- Not required, but polite to inform primary author
- Repurposing of document components
- Rich potential for providing new view of document
- Desirable that the primary author indicate granularity of reuse allowed
- Issues for etiquette evolution
- What is the atom of information?
- How is authorship clearly maintained?
- How is quality assured?
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