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- ONet Association
- Acceptable Use Policy
- DRAFT October 23, 1990
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- Introduction
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- The ONet network exists to facilitate the exchange of information in support
- of education, research, development, and technology transfer. The network
- and its connections to other networks are to be used only in manners that
- are consistent with these purposes within the spirit of this acceptable use
- policy.
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- Each member is responsible for taking appropriate action to communicate this
- policy within its organization and to rectify the behaviour of its users who
- disregard this policy.
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- Organizations within Ontario which wish to make use of the ONet network
- should become members of the ONet Association. A member which provides
- connectivity between itself and other Ontario-based organizations that are
- not members of the ONet Association, must guarantee that no traffic will be
- generated onto or accepted over ONet resources to or from that non-member
- organization.
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- Authentication
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- An ONet member must ensure that it can trace any use of the ONet network
- from within its organization to the individual who initiated that use.
- Identification of the individual might be achieved through a mechanism such
- as unique userids or passwords, or through the ownership of the node in
- question. Examples of non-authenticating nodes include nodes with public-use
- userids or multiple-user userids. Traffic originating from any and all such
- non-authenticating nodes within the member's network must not be transmitted
- from the member's network into or through the ONet network.
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- Acceptable Uses of the ONet Network
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- The intent of this acceptable use policy is to clarify by example the
- guidelines that apply to determining whether a given use is acceptable or
- not. These guidelines are not intended to be exhaustive. The final authority
- for determining whether or not a use is acceptable is the ONet Management
- Committee. Members are responsible for raising any questionable use with
- the committee. Until any use referred in this manner is determined to be
- acceptable, it should be considered as unacceptable.
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- Uses that fall under one of the following descriptions are, in general,
- acceptable:
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- 1. Uses consistent with the purposes of ONet;
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- 2. Uses related to instruction, research, development and technology
- transfer at not-for-profit organizations;
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- 3. Uses by for-profit organizations in support of development and
- technology transfer projects.
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- 4. Uses related to the administrative and other support of
- activities considered consistent with the purposes of ONet;
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- 5. Uses relating to billable services, such as the sale of machine time,
- provided that the use of the service in question is itself related to
- activities consistent with the purposes of the ONet network.
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- 6. Uses relating to the investigation and support of vendors' products,
- such as the distribution of information or technical support material
- on request or the discussion of products' relative advantages and
- disadvantages.
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- Uses that fall under one of the following descriptions are, in general,
- not acceptable:
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- 1. Uses that interfere with the work of other users of the network or
- with their host systems, or that seriously disrupt the network, or that
- result in the loss of a user's work or system;
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- 2. Uses related to commercial activities such as the unsolicited
- distribution of advertising material;
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- 3. Uses that might be considered malicious or unethical;
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- 4. Uses that violate federal or provincial laws;
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- 5. Uses related to "chain letters" or broadcasting to lists of individuals
- in such a manner that might cause congestion of the network;
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- 6. Uses of the ONet network that result in traffic to any connected
- network which violates published acceptable use specifications for
- that network. (For example, although there is no limit on the size
- of files that may be transferred within the ONet network, or within
- the CA*net or NetNorth national networks, there is a specification
- that prohibits files larger than 300K from being transferred from
- the NetNorth network into or through the BITNET network.)
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- ********************End of Acceptable Use Policy Document***********************
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- 6) Estimate the number of hosts that will be on the network:
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- 6a. Initially: 65
- 6b. Within one year: 140
- 6c. Within two years: 300
- 6d. Within five years: 850
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- 7. Reason:
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- We are applying for a Class B license as our requirements now exceed the limits
- of a Class C license. Our TCP-IP network has grown to include different
- physical LAN types (Arcnet and Ethernet as well as point to point) and has
- extended over a wide geographical area (Canada, U.S.A. and England). As well,
- having a large and growing population of high-speed Unix workstations mixed in
- with PC's and general use Vaxes has led to network congestion in certain cases.
- We forsee real problems arising within the next year if we are not able to
- create subnets to handle this situation. This, coupled with the fact that we
- will exceed the ~255 host limit within 2 years leads us to request the Class B
- license.
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- 8. Type of network: Research
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- 9. Purpose: To carry out Research and Development for a multi-national
- company in the field of Aluminum and related products.
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- Shawn Allin
- Alcan International Ltd.,
- P.O. Box 8400,
- Kingston, Ont.,
- Canada K7L 5L9
- (613) 541-2178
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- ACCESS@KRDC.INT.Alcan.CA
- Bitnet: ACCESS@ALCANKTN
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