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- Bay Area Regional Research Network
- Pine Hall Rm. 115
- Stanford University
- Stanford, CA 94305-4122
- 415-725-1790
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- BARRNET RULES AND REGULATIONS
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- February, 1992
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- A. For traffic that will cross the NSFNET backbone, members shall
- comply with the rules for use of the NSFNet backbone as promulgated
- from time-to-time by the National Science Foundation. Until notified
- of changes, the following guidelines shall apply:
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- THE NSFNET BACKBONE SERVICES ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY - 2/11/92
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- GENERAL PRINCIPLE:
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- (1) NSFNET Backbone services are provided to support open research and
- education in and among US research and instructional institutions,
- plus research arms of for-profit firms when engaged in open
- scholarly communication and research. Use for other purposes is
- not acceptable.
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- SPECIFICALLY ACCEPTABLE USES:
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- (2) Communication with foreign researchers and educators in connection
- with research or instruction, as long as any network that the
- foreign user employs for such communication provides reciprocal
- access to US researchers and educators.
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- (3) Communication and exchange for professional development, to
- maintain currency, or to debate issues in a field or subfield of
- knowledge.
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- (4) Use for disciplinary-society, university-association,
- government-advisory, or standards activities related to the user's
- research and instructional activities.
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- (5) Use in applying for or administering grants or contracts for
- research or instruction, but not for other fundraising or public
- relations activities.
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- (6) Any other administrative communications or activities in direct
- support of research and instruction.
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- (7) Announcements of new products or services for use in research or
- instruction, but not advertising of any kind.
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- (8) Any traffic originating from a network of another member agency of
- the Federal Networking Council if the traffic meets the acceptable
- use policy of that agency.
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- (9) Communication incidental to otherwise acceptable use, except for
- illegal or specifically unacceptable use.
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- UNACCEPTABLE USES:
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- (10) Use for for-profit activities (consulting for pay, sales or
- administration of campus stores, sale of tickets to sports events,
- and so on) or use by for-profit institutions unless covered by the
- General Principle or as a specifically acceptable use.
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- (11) Extensive use for private or personal business.
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- This statement applies to use of the the NSFNET Backbone only. NSF
- expects that connecting networks will formulate their own use
- policies. The NSF Division of Networking and Communications Research
- and Infrastructure will resolve any questions about this Policy or its
- interpretation.
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- B. BARRNet's purposes are to facilitate communications in support
- of scientific research and higher education using high-performance
- computer networking technology and wide-area telecommunications
- utilities, and to promote scientific and educational collaboration,
- sharing of research and educational information, and wide access to
- computer resources for the advancement of research and educational
- purposes. This will include, but not be limited to, promotion of
- digital data interconnection of research facilities and remote
- computing facilities to support supercomputing, exchange of data and
- software, sharing of scientific information and experimentation in
- high-speed interconnection applications such as delivery of scientific
- graphics, large bit-map display support, distributed computing, and
- large file distribution and other scientific research applications.
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- If a use is consistent with the purposes of BARRNet, then
- activities necessary to that use will be considered consistent with
- the purposes of BARRNet. For example, administrative communications
- which are part of the support infrastructure needed for research and
- instruction are acceptable.
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- A use for scientific research or instruction by members is
- acceptable. A use which is part of or supports a scientific or
- instructional activity for the benefit of a not-for-profit member's
- research or instruction is acceptable, even if any or all parties to
- the use are located or employed away from the site at which the
- member's connected facilities are located. For example, communication
- directly between for-profit members engaged in support of a project
- for such a member, whether a BARRNet not-for-profit member or
- not-for-profit institution elsewhere is acceptable. A use for
- scientific research or instruction at for profit members may or may
- not be consistent with the purposes of BARRNet, and will be reviewed
- on a case-by-case basis by the voting members.
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- C. BARRNet members may make incidental use of BARRNet for any
- legal purpose including transit to providers of backbone or internet
- exchange services so long as their primary BARRNet use and NSFNET
- backbone access complies with applicable use rules.
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- D. Any use which adversely affects the operation of BARRNet or
- jeopardizes the use or performance for other members may be judged
- improper by the Executive Director.
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- E. All use shall comply with BARRNet Technical Committee rules
- governing routing and use of network numbers.
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