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- Anonymous FTP Account Policy
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- This account provides a writable directory, "incoming", for the use
- of our guests. Please note that we, the system management, will not
- tolerate the use of this directory to facilitate the commission of
- any crime. We wish to assume neither the burden of arbiter of good
- taste nor the role of censor, but users should be aware that certain
- uses of the account, such as storage or exchange of images that
- depict children engaged in sexual conduct, can be interpreted as
- criminal and subject to prosecution. If it is brought to our
- attention that a file is related to possible criminal activity, we
- will inform the appropriate law enforcement agencies.
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- Furthermore, we ask that guests using this account over the NSFNET
- restrict such use according to the following:
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- Interim 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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