[319] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
georgia tech restriction on internet access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Vielmetti)
Thu Mar 7 18:11:01 1991
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Thu, 07 Mar 91 17:56:48 EST
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@ox.com>
>From comp.org.eff.talk. This does not strike me as something
that the Acceptable Use policies mandate, not at least as I
read them.
It's one thing for an organization to institute policies of
restricted access (that's their business), it's another to
blame them on compliance with (nonexistent) draconian policies
that someone else has put into place.
--Ed
>From: gt6004a@prism.gatech.EDU (Michael Goldsman)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Georgia Tech's Restriction on Internet Access
Date: 7 Mar 91 21:47:33 GMT
This was recently posted to a georgia tech newsgroup:
February 13, 1991
MEMORANDUM
To: Vice Presidents
Deans
Directors
Department Heads
Lab Directors
Academic Services Computing Subcommittee
>From: F. L. Suddath
Vice President for Information Technology
[misc stuff deleted]
In order to comply with NSFNET, SURAnet, and Internet "Acceptable Use"
policies and security guidelines, Network Technologies will implement a
Network Access Control Policy utilizing a Trusted Host model for
managing network security. The intent of the model is to ensure the
integrity and security of GTnet and the Internet, while having the
minimum impact on the connectivity of the networks users who depend upon
the network. The Trusted Host model would provide support for Internet
access for remote login and file transfer via a secure machine. Support
for the exchange of electronic mail would be provided by a secure mail
gateway system. Any member of the faculty or staff, with authority to
access remote resources across the Internet, would be granted an account
on the Trusted Host. Postdocs, Graduate Research Assistants, and
Undergraduate students with a valid requirement to access remote
resources would receive sponsorship from the appropriate faculty/staff
member and be granted an account on the trusted host. Additional
automated request services would be available to support Anonymous FTP
with locally cached directories from a trusted FTP server. Tech would
not be the first site to implement such a network security model.
Numerous site on the Internet currently support Trusted Host network
access including: MIT, Digital Equipment Corporation, Sun Microsystems,
and numerous government sites.
[stuff to the end deleted]
Questions for you guys:
1. Have any other universities restricted access as Tech is about to do?
2. what exactly are NSFNet and SURAnet's policies??
We are going to try to fight this, and as of yet seems to have lots
of support among student here.
Please commment on this evil memo from hell...
- -Mike
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