Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct

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Our Pledge

We as members, contributors, and leaders of the PeerGlass community pledge to make
participation in our project a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless
of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics,
gender identity and expression, level of experience, education, socioeconomic status,
nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, colour, religion, or sexual identity
and orientation.

PeerGlass serves the global Internet community — spanning all 5 Regional Internet
Registry regions across Africa, Asia-Pacific, North America, Latin America, Europe,
the Middle East, and Central Asia. We are committed to a welcoming environment that
reflects the diversity of that global community.

We pledge to act and interact in ways that contribute to an open, welcoming,
diverse, inclusive, and healthy community.

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Our Standards

Examples of behaviour that contributes to a positive environment:

• Using welcoming and inclusive language
• Being respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences
• Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
• Focusing on what is best not just for us as individuals, but for the overall community
• Showing empathy towards other community members
• Acknowledging that contributors come from different networking, cultural, and language backgrounds

Examples of unacceptable behaviour:

• The use of sexualised language or imagery, and sexual attention or advances of any kind
• Trolling, insulting or derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
• Public or private harassment
• Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic address, without explicit permission
• Deliberately misusing network data or abuse lookup tools that PeerGlass provides
• Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a professional setting

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Enforcement Responsibilities

Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of
acceptable behaviour and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response
to any behaviour that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject
comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not
aligned to this Code of Conduct, and will communicate reasons for moderation
decisions when appropriate.

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Scope

This Code of Conduct applies within all community spaces, including:

• GitHub Issues, Pull Requests, and Discussions
• Code reviews and commit messages
• Documentation and DEMO content
• Any official project communication channels

It also applies when an individual is officially representing the project in public
spaces — for example, posting about PeerGlass on LinkedIn, speaking at IETF meetings,
contributing to RIPE Labs, APNIC Blog, or other Internet governance forums.

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Responsible Use

PeerGlass provides access to public Internet registry data, BGP routing information,
RPKI validation, and IXP peering data. Contributors and users agree to:

• Use PeerGlass only for lawful purposes
• Not use PeerGlass's abuse contact lookup (rir_get_abuse_contact) to facilitate harassment
• Respect the rate limits and terms of service of all upstream APIs (RDAP servers, RIPE Stat, PeeringDB, Cloudflare RPKI)
• Not use the change monitor (rir_change_monitor) for surveillance or stalking of organisations or individuals
• Credit the data sources (RIRs, RIPE Stat, PeeringDB) appropriately in any published research

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Enforcement

Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behaviour may be reported
by opening a private GitHub Issue or contacting the project maintainers directly
through the contact information listed in the repository.

All complaints will be reviewed and investigated promptly and fairly.

All project maintainers are obligated to respect the privacy and security of the
reporter of any incident.

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Enforcement Guidelines

Project maintainers will follow these Community Impact Guidelines in determining
the consequences for any action they deem in violation of this Code of Conduct:

1. Correction

Community Impact: Use of inappropriate language or other behaviour deemed
unprofessional or unwelcome in the community.

Consequence: A private, written warning from maintainers, providing clarity
around the nature of the violation and an explanation of why the behaviour was
inappropriate. A public apology may be requested.

2. Warning

Community Impact: A violation through a single incident or series of actions.

Consequence: A warning with consequences for continued behaviour. No interaction
with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing
the Code of Conduct, for a specified period of time. This includes avoiding
interactions in community spaces as well as external channels like social media.
Violating these terms may lead to a temporary or permanent ban.

3. Temporary Ban

Community Impact: A serious violation of community standards, including sustained
inappropriate behaviour.

Consequence: A temporary ban from any sort of interaction or public communication
with the community for a specified period of time. No public or private interaction
with the people involved, including unsolicited interaction with those enforcing the
Code of Conduct, is allowed during this period. Violating these terms may lead to a
permanent ban.

4. Permanent Ban

Community Impact: Demonstrating a pattern of violation of community standards,
including sustained inappropriate behaviour, harassment of an individual, or
aggression toward or disparagement of classes of individuals.

Consequence: A permanent ban from any sort of public interaction within the community.

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Attribution

This Code of Conduct is adapted from the
Contributor Covenant, version 2.1,
available at https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct.html.

Community Impact Guidelines were inspired by
Mozilla's code of conduct enforcement ladder.

For answers to common questions about this code of conduct, see the FAQ at
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/faq. Translations are available at
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/translations.

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PeerGlass is a global project serving the Internet community across all 5 RIR regions.
We are committed to being a welcoming home for contributors from every part of the world.