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- NORTHWESTNET ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
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- NorthWestNet is a regional data communications network serving a
- consortium of universities and research groups in the northwest-
- ern part of the United States. Its goals are summarized in the
- Articles of Incorporation for the Northwest Academic Computing
- Consortium, Inc. All use of NorthWestNet facilities must be
- consistent with the goals and purposes of NorthWestNet. The
- intent of this statement is to describe certain uses which are
- consistent with the purposes of NorthWestNet, not to exhaustively
- enumerate all such possible uses.
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- Some acceptable uses of NorthWestNet facilities include:
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- o use for scientific research or instruction at member and
- associate member institutions through the provision of
- high-speed data communications;
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- o use as a vehicle for scholarly communications;
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- o use as a means for NorthWestNet members to access remote
- computing resources for the purpose of scientific
- research or instruction. Notable examples of such
- resources are the NSF supercomputing facilities;
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- o use necessary to support other acceptable uses. For
- example, administrative communications which are part of
- the support infrastructure needed for research and
- instruction are acceptable. Similarly, communications
- directly between non-member institutions in support of
- research or instruction at member institutions is
- acceptable;
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- o use required by agreements with NSF, the primary funding
- agency for NorthWestNet;
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- o use by member institutions as a laboratory for research
- and experimentation in computer communications, where
- such use does not interfere with production usage.
- However, any experimental use requiring modification to
- router software or protocol layers below ISO layer 4
- requires prior review by the Technical Committee.
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- In general, commercial and general administrative use are prohib-
- ited. Use for scientific research or instruction at non-member
- institutions and at for-profit institutions may or may not be
- consistent with the purposes of NorthWestNet, and will be re-
- viewed on a case by case basis.
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- Use of NorthWestNet for any illegal purpose, or to achieve
- unauthorized access to systems, software, or data is prohibited.
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- NorthWestNet is a production communications network on which many
- researchers depend. Uses that significantly interfere with the
- ability of other users to make effective use of the network are
- not acceptable.
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