The following guidelines for posting on the IRP blog address editorial content and code of content.

EDITORIAL CONTENT

1) announcements and news about IRP (not organizational or coordination tasks),

2) news about issues related to the mission and vision of IRP (information rights and principles, privacy, surveillance, censorship, copyright, digital divide, internet governance, technologies of enclosure, etc.)

3) calls to action for upcoming events or campaigns

CODE OF CONDUCT

Tim O'Reilly's "Call for a Blogger's Code of Conduct")

1. Take responsibility not just for your own words, but for the comments you allow on your blog.
2. Label your tolerance level for abusive comments.
3. Consider eliminating anonymous comments.
4. Ignore the trolls.
5. Take the conversation offline, and talk directly, or find an intermediary who can do so.
6. If you know someone who is behaving badly, tell them so.
7. Don't say anything online that you wouldn't say in person.

NCA Credo for Ethical Communication 

We advocate truthfulness, accuracy, honesty, and reason as essential to the integrity of communication.
 
We endorse freedom of expression, diversity of perspective, and tolerance of dissent to achieve the
informed and responsible decision making fundamental to a civil society.
 
We strive to understand and respect other communicators before evaluating and responding to their
messages.
 
We promote access to communication resources and opportunities as necessary to fulfill human potential
and contribute to the well-being of families, communities, and society.
 
We promote communication climates of caring and mutual understanding that respect the unique needs
and characteristics of individual communicators.
 
We condemn communication that degrades individuals and humanity through distortion,
intimidation, coercion, and violence and through the expression of intolerance and hatred.
 
We are committed to the courageous expression of personal convictions in pursuit of
fairness and justice.
 
We advocate sharing information, opinions, and feelings when facing significant choices while also
respecting privacy and confidentiality.
 
We accept responsibility for the short- and long-term consequences for our own communication and
expect the same of others.