[478] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
ANS Acceptable Use Policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent England)
Fri Mar 29 06:51:31 1991
From: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu (Kent England)
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 17:46:06 -0500
To: com-priv@psi.com
I think this answers some of the questions raised of
late regarding ANS. Gordon, you might consider this in answer
to your plea for someone from ANS to raise their voice. :-)
--Kent
>From Joel_Maloff@um.cc.umich.edu Thu Mar 28 17:40:40 1991
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 91 17:38:12 EST
>From: Joel_Maloff@um.cc.umich.edu
To: kwe@bu-it.bu.edu, maloff@merit.edu
Subject: ANS Acceptable Use Policy
Kent;
Thank you for your inquiry into the ANS Acceptable Use Policy.
As you requested, I have attached it to this message. You may feel free
to share it as you see fit.
The ANS Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) bears much in common with
policies of other organizations involved in internetworking. ANS
adopted an AUP for much the same reasons that led other networks
to do so. We wish to provide the best possible service to the
research and education community. The AUP will be administered on
a case by case basis, taking real - not hypothetical - cases one
at a time, and with the help of the community that we serve,
respond appropriately to real instances. Both formal and informal
groups will be used by ANS in seeking guidance on the AUP
administration. Attaching institutions will have responsibility
for adherence to the AUP, and will give advice on its
administration and suggested changes. ANS expects the AUP to
evolve over time. The AUP reads as follows:
ANS ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
Advanced Network & Services, Inc. (ANS) is a not-for-profit
corporation dedicated to the advancement of education and
research in the interest of improving competitiveness and
productivity in the global economic environment. Accordingly,
ANS' objectives are to help expand access to and interchange of
information technology resources among academic, government and
industry users, provide state-of-the-art high speed data networks
and related services, engage in related research and development
work, and improve the ways that information is created and used
for education and research purposes. ANS aims to support the
academic and research communities, enhance education and research
at all levels, and contribute to improving the quality of
education and research.
Organizations using ANS services will directly benefit if ANS
services and facilities are used in ways which will build overall
system efficiencies, maximize the accessibility of the system,
and minimize or eliminate unimportant or improper traffic over
the systems. ANS will be able to provide better service for User
Organizations if a reasonable Acceptable Use Policy is adopted,
promulgated and applied by ANS and all User Organizations.
The Policy
1. All use of ANS network services are be intended to
facilitate the exchange of information in furtherance
of education and research, and otherwise be consistent
with the broad objectives of ANS.
2. Users of ANS network services will promote efficient
use of the networks to minimize, and avoid if
possible, congestion of the networks and interference
with the work of other users of the networks.
3. Users of ANS network services will not disrupt any
of the ANS networks as a whole or any equipment or
system forming part of its systems, or any services
provided over, or in connection with, any of the ANS
networks.
4. ANS networks must not be used to transmit any
communication where the meaning of the message, or its
transmission or distribution, would violate any
applicable law or regulation or would likely be highly
offensive to the recipient or recipients thereof.
5. ANS networks must not be used for commercial
purposes. However, if a use is consistent with the
purposes and objectives of ANS, then commercial
activities in support of that use will be considered
an acceptable use of the network.
6. Advertising of commercial offerings is forbidden.
discussion of a product's relative advantages and
disadvantages by users of the product is encouraged.
Vendors may respond to questions about their products
as long as the responses are not in the nature of
advertising.
7. Interpretation, application, and possible modification
of this Acceptable Use Policy will be within the sole
discretion of ANS. Questions about any issue arising
under this Policy should be directed to ANS by User
Organizations when an issue first arises.
