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- CREN Information Center CREN NET_USE October 3, 1990
- Suite 600, 1112 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 (202) 872-4200
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- Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
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- 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.
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- 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
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- Acceptable Use of the Networks
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- The following examples may help users of the networks apply these
- principles in particular cases.
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- * 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.*
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- Users of CREN networks are expected to be responsible in their use:
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- * "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.
- * Bitnet files will be limited to sizes determined and reviewed
- periodically. (Note: The current limit is 300,000 bytes per
- file transmitted.)
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- 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.
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- 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).
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