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- <NIC.MERIT.EDU> /nsfnet/acceptable.use.policies/nsfnet.txt June 1992
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- THE NSFNET BACKBONE SERVICES ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
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- June 1992
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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, 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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