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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 11:32:21 EST
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- From: Jim Conklin <CONKLIN@BITNIC.BITNET>
- Subject: Revised CREN Acceptable Use Policy
- Comments: cc: technews@BITNIC.BITNET, crenbdst@BITNIC.BITNET
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- The following CREN Acceptable Use Policy, revised to take the new CREN
- policy on file size and handling, will take effect as of January 1, 1993.
- Jim
-
- BITNET Network Information Center, CREN CREN NET_USE 01/01/93
- Suite 600, 1112 16th St., NW, Washington, DC 20036, USA +1 202-872-4200
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- Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
-
- Acceptable Use Policy
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- CREN networks are for the use of persons legitimately affiliated with
- CREN Member or Affiliate organizations, to facilitate the exchange of
- information consistent with the academic, educational and research purposes of
- its members. All individuals affiliated with CREN Member or Affiliate
- organizations are responsible for seeing that their communities are aware of
- these guidelines, and that the guidelines are followed, both in letter and in
- spirit.
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- CREN networks are, at the discretion of the institutions involved, open
- to use by students enrolled at participating CREN Member or Affiliate
- educational institutions.
-
- Use of CREN networks shall:
- * Be consistent with the purposes and goals of the networks
- * Avoid interfering with the work of other users of the networks
- * Avoid disrupting the network host systems (nodes)
- * Avoid disrupting network services
-
-
- Acceptable Use of the Networks
-
- The following examples may help users of the networks apply these
- principles in particular cases.
- * Messages that are likely to result in the loss of recipients' work or
- systems are prohibited.
- * CREN networks are not to be used for commercial purposes, such as
- marketing, reselling bandwith, or business transactions between
- commercial organizations.
- * Advertising 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.
- * CREN networks may be used for the provision of services which support the
- needs and purposes of the CREN networks, and for which a charge is made,
- if the network is an optional mechanism for provision of this service for
- which no additional charge is made, and as long as the use of the service
- is consistent with the bandwidth of the network and the forwarding hosts.
- Providers of such information may be non-profit or for-profit
- organizations.
- * Any communication which violates applicable laws and regulations is not
- allowed.*
-
- Users of CREN networks are expected to be responsible in their use:
- * "Chain letters," "broadcasting" messages to lists or individuals, and
- other types of use which would cause congestion of the networks or
- otherwise interfere with the work of others are not allowed.
- * Users are requested to minimize the transmission of large files in order
- not to degrade network performance. Files up to 1 MB should be able to
- traverse most of the network.**
-
- CREN Members or Affiliates are expected to take reasonable measures
- (given the constraints of technology and management) to ensure that traffic
- using gateways between CREN networks and other networks conforms to these
- guidelines.
-
- Final authority for CREN acceptable use policies lies with the CREN
- Board. It is the responsibility of member representatives to contact the CREN
- Board, in writing, regarding questions of interpretation. Until such issues
- are resolved, questionable use should be considered "not acceptable."
-
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- * In particular, messages and data sent to destinations outside the US must
- satisfy the Department of Commerce regulations (either be within the GTDA
- guidelines for information which may be generally transmitted or have the
- required license).
- ** See the file BITNET FILESIZE on LISTSERV@BITNIC for CREN guidelines on file
- size and handling.
-