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Date: 2 Jul 90
From: Bill Bostwick <BOSTWICK@DARPA.MIL>
FRICC POLICY ON INTERCONNECTIVITY AND RESOURCE SHARING
Within the participating government agencies of the Federal Research
Internet Coordinating Committee (FRICC), there exist today varying policies
on the acceptable use of each agency's networking resources. This policy
statement set forth by the FRICC will establish both a short-term and
longer-term policy agreed to by the FRICC participating members. Mid-level
networks that use FRICC shared resources must conform to this policy.
For the short term, the FRICC policy is relatively simple and is primarily
motivated by the cost savings to the Federal government. This policy will
be in effect from mid fiscal year 1989 through fiscal year 1991.
1. The member agencies of the FRICC agree to share the use of network
data links, both domestic and foreign, whenever possible. This
will include the gatewaying of major backbone resources of the
participating agencies within the continental United States.
2. The member agencies of the FRICC agree to carry all traffic that
meets the acceptable use policy of the originating member agency.
In the least restrictive case, this includes all bona fide
researchers and scholars, public and private, from the United
States and foreign countries unless denied access by national
policy.
3. The member agencies of the FRICC will maintain the prerogative to
limit or shut off the shared use of interconnected resources
during periods when guaranteed bandwidth might be required by the
proprietary agency.
4. The FRICC will comply with OMB Circular A-130 through estimates of
shared traffic and ongoing research and development enabling the
identification and metering of traffic through gateways or other
means.
For the long term, the FRICC policy is a transition to a National Research
Network to be operated commercially. The FRICC will support the research
and development required for the administrative policy controls and counting
mechanisms that will make this transition possible.