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From: karp@news.cs.columbia.edu (Peter Karp)
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Date: 26 Feb 1994 11:51:51 -0500
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    THE NSFNET BACKBONE SERVICES ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY

GENERAL PRINCIPLE:

(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.

SPECIFICALLY ACCEPTABLE USES:

(2) Communication with foreign researchers and educators in  
connectionwith research or instruction, as long as any network that  
the foreign user employs for such communication provides reciprocal  
access to US researchers and educators.

(3) Communication and exchange for professional development, to
maintain currency, or to debate issues in a field or subfield of  
knowledge.

(4) Use for disciplinary-society, university-association,
government-advisory, or standards activities related to the user's
research and instructional activities.

(5) Use in applying for or administering grants or contracts for
research or instruction, but not for other fundraising or public
relations activities.

(6) Any other administrative communications or activities in direct
support of research and instruction.

(7) Announcements of new products or services for use in research  
or instruction, but not advertising of any kind.

(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.

(9) Communication incidental to otherwise acceptable use, except for
illegal or specifically unacceptable use.

UNACCEPTABLE USES:

(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.

(11) Extensive use for private or personal business.

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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