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- Date: 2 Jul 90
- From: Bill Bostwick <BOSTWICK@DARPA.MIL>
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- FRICC POLICY ON INTERCONNECTIVITY AND RESOURCE SHARING
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- Within the participating government agencies of the Federal Research
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- Internet Coordinating Committee (FRICC), there exist today varying policies
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- on the acceptable use of each agency's networking resources. This policy
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- statement set forth by the FRICC will establish both a short-term and
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- longer-term policy agreed to by the FRICC participating members. Mid-level
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- networks that use FRICC shared resources must conform to this policy.
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- For the short term, the FRICC policy is relatively simple and is primarily
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- motivated by the cost savings to the Federal government. This policy will
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- be in effect from mid fiscal year 1989 through fiscal year 1991.
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- 1. The member agencies of the FRICC agree to share the use of network
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- data links, both domestic and foreign, whenever possible. This
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- will include the gatewaying of major backbone resources of the
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- participating agencies within the continental United States.
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- 2. The member agencies of the FRICC agree to carry all traffic that
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- meets the acceptable use policy of the originating member agency.
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- In the least restrictive case, this includes all bona fide
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- researchers and scholars, public and private, from the United
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- States and foreign countries unless denied access by national
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- policy.
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- 3. The member agencies of the FRICC will maintain the prerogative to
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- limit or shut off the shared use of interconnected resources
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- during periods when guaranteed bandwidth might be required by the
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- proprietary agency.
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- 4. The FRICC will comply with OMB Circular A-130 through estimates of
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- shared traffic and ongoing research and development enabling the
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- identification and metering of traffic through gateways or other
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- means.
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- For the long term, the FRICC policy is a transition to a National Research
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- Network to be operated commercially. The FRICC will support the research
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- and development required for the administrative policy controls and counting
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- mechanisms that will make this transition possible.
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