1. Universities and research laboratories

1.1. Conduct research free from external misdirection in pursuit of short-range objectives set by industry or the state (8.3, below).

1.2. Develop an improved theoretical base for cooperative multiprocessor computing in parallel and network systems.

1.3. Inform the professions and the media fully and frequently about research in progress and its implications.

2. The IT industry

2.1. Continue free to develop and produce hardware, software and services to meet commercial objectives of own choosing, subject only to the trading controls generally applied to protect the rights of customers.

2.2. Participate in,v and help to fund, the development of improved methods of technology assessment (4.4 and 8.5, below).

3. Users of IT systems

3.1. Continue free to develop and operate IT systems at will, scrupulously observing legislation to protect privacy, and subject only to the controls generally applied to maintain the rights of customers and employees.

3.2. Top management and governing boards: learn enough about IT to exercise firm strategic control over their organization's use of it, in order to redirect projects (too narrowly conceived by specialists) which could damage their customer or industrial relations (4.5, below).

3.3. Take potential consequences into account when designing systems, accepting some extra cost, delay and loss of efficiency where necessary to mitigate adverse effects (4.5, below).

3.4. Consult employees and customers liable to be affected by new proposals before these have been finalized, and while they can be modified to meet valid objections.