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Concerning teenagers, no absolute rule exists concerning the hours of going out and returning home, the possibilities of long trips alone or in a group, or whom they choose as friends. Often, parents, assuming their parental responsibility, establish rules that are contested by their teenage children. The latter, already feeling like adults, affirm their new identity by confronting their parents. Each side, feeling legitimate, camps on their reciprocal positions.

When direct exchanges become difficult and include a constant interrupting of one another, the need is felt to organize the exchanges and establish new rules of the game: it is a call for mediation.

This call also concerns areas where the rapid advancement of technology does not allow people to always take their time to respond judiciously; the same applies to copyright in the dissemination of works on the Internet. To a greater extent, the settling of conflicts resulting from Internet transactions creates a need for mediation by the Forum of Internet Rights to organize online or face‐to‐face mediation between Internet users and Web service providers. The mediator, who helps in the interpretation and legitimacy of an implicit or explicit rule, assists the parties to agree upon the rules they all find acceptable.