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- Interim 3 July 1990
- NSFNET
- Acceptable Use Policy
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- The purpose of NSFNET is to support research and education in and
- among academic institutions in the U.S. by providing access to unique
- resources and the opportunity for collaborative work.
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- This statement represents a guide to the acceptable use of the NSFNET
- backbone. It is only intended to address the issue of use of the
- backbone. It is expected that the various middle level networks will
- formulate their own use policies for traffic that will not traverse
- the backbone.
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- (1) All use must be consistent with the purposes of NSFNET.
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- (2) The intent of the use policy is to make clear certain cases
- which are consistent with the purposes of NSFNET, not to
- exhaustively enumerate all such possible uses.
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- (3) The NSF NSFNET Project Office may at any time make
- determinations that particular uses are or are not
- consistent with the purposes of NSFNET. Such determinations
- will be reported to the NSFNET Policy Advisory Committee
- and to the user community.
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- (4) If a use is consistent with the purposes of NSFNET, then
- activities in direct support of that use will be considered
- consistent with the purposes of NSFNET. For example,
- administrative communications for the support infrastructure
- needed for research and instruction are acceptable.
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- (5) Use in support of research or instruction at not-for-profit
- institutions of research or instruction in the United States
- is acceptable.
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- (6) Use for a project which is part of or supports a research or
- instruction activity for a not-for-profit institution of
- research or instruction in the United States is acceptable,
- even if any or all parties to the use are located or
- employed elsewhere. For example, communications directly
- between industrial affiliates engaged in support of a
- project for such an institution is acceptable.
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- (7) Use for commercial activities by for-profit institutions is
- generally not acceptable unless it can be justified under
- (4) above. These should be reviewed on a case-by-case basis
- by the NSF Project Office.
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- (8) Use for research or instruction at for-profit institutions
- may or may not be consistent with the purposes of NSFNET,
- and will be reviewed by the NSF Project Office on a
- case-by-case basis.
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