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- DDN MGT Bulletin 76 DCA DDN Defense Communications System
- 24 Aug 90 Published by: DDN Network Info Center
- (NIC@NIC.DDN.MIL) (800) 235-3155
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- DEFENSE DATA NETWORK
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- MANAGEMENT BULLETIN
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- The DDN MANAGEMENT BULLETIN is distributed online by the DDN Network
- Information Center under DCA contract as a means of communicating
- official policy, procedures and other information of concern to
- management personnel at DDN facilities. Back issues may be read
- through the TACNEWS server ("@n" command at the TAC) or may be
- obtained by FTP (or Kermit) from the NIC.DDN.MIL host [192.67.67.20]
- using login="anonymous" and password="guest". The pathname
- for bulletins is DDN-NEWS:DDN-MGT-BULLETIN-nn.TXT (where "nn" is the
- bulletin number).
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- TAC User Registration Clarification
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- DDN instituted Usage Sensitive Billing (USB) in October 1989 as a
- more equitable method of cost recovery than the prior flat rate billing
- method. Under USB, TAC user traffic and connection time are charged to
- the authorizing host. In order to ensure complete and accurate billing
- of these users, controls on user registration were instituted.
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- It has always been the policy that only adminstrators of hosts
- directly connected to the MILNET could authorize TAC access for their
- users. This bulletin is issued as clarification for those host
- administrators of hosts that are changing their connection pathways to
- the MILNET. Thus, you as a host administrator can only authorize
- users for TAC access if your host remains directly connected to the
- MILNET. If your host is moved behind a concentrator or gateway, you
- will no longer be able to authorize users for TAC access. In
- addition, you will need to transfer your jurisdiction over existing
- users to a host administrator associated with a directly connected
- MILNET host.
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- If you have questions about TAC user registration, please send a
- message to REGISTRAR@NIC.DDN.MIL or call 1-800-235-3155.
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