[2353] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: access to and acceptable use of NREN networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Partan)
Wed Feb 19 11:55:12 1992
From: asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)
To: steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov (Stephen Wolff)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 11:47:23 EST
Cc: jqj@duff.uoregon.edu, nren-discuss@psi.com, com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9202191440.AA20298@cise.cise.nsf.gov>; from "Stephen Wolff" at Feb 19, 92 9:37 am
> From: Stephen Wolff <steve@ncri.cise.nsf.gov>
> Subject: access to and acceptable use of NREN networks
> To: jqj@duff.uoregon.edu
> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 92 09:37:06 EST
>
> FIRST: The new NSF Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) is available by anonymous
> ftp from nis.nsf.net in directory cise. It's in PostScript.
I converted it back to ASCII text. Here it is. Would it be possible
to have the official version on nsi.nsf.net be in both text and
PostScript?
--asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)
THE NSFNET BACKBONE SERVICES ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
GENERAL PRINCIPLE:
(1) NSFNET Backbone services are provided to support open research and
education in and among US research and instructional institutions,
plus research arms of for-profit firms when engaged in open
scholarly communication and research. Use for other purposes is
not acceptable.
SPECIFICALLY ACCEPTABLE USES:
(2) Communication with foreign researchers and educators in connection
with research or instruction, as long as any network that the
foreign user employs for such communication provides reciprocal
access to US researchers and educators.
(3) Communication and exchange for professional development, to
maintain currency, or to debate issues in a field or subfield of
knowledge.
(4) Use for disciplinary-society, university-association,
government-advisory, or standards activities related to the user's
research and instructional activities.
(5) Use in applying for or administering grants or contracts for
research or instruction, but not for other fundraising or public
relations activities.
(6) Any other administrative communications or activities in direct
support of research and instruction.
(7) Announcements of new products or services for use in research or
instruction, but not advertising of any kind.
(8) Any traffic originating from a network of another member agency of
the Federal Networking Council if the traffic meets the acceptable
use policy of that agency.
(9) Communication incidental to otherwise acceptable use, except for
illegal or specifically unacceptable use.
UNACCEPTABLE USES:
(10) Use for for-profit activities (consulting for pay, sales or
administration of campus stores, sale of tickets to sports events,
and so on) or use by for-profit institutions unless covered by the
General Principle or as a specifically acceptable use.
(11) Extensive use for private or personal business.
This statement applies to use of the the NSFNET Backbone only. NSF
expects that connecting networks will formulate their own use
policies. The NSF Division of Networking and Communications Research
and Infrastructure will resolve any questions about this Policy or its
interpretation.
>From nis.nsf.net:CISE:
ACC-USE PS V 77 597 4 2/11/92 13:37:03 CIS191
