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<NIS.NSF.NET> [NSFNET] NETUSE.TXT
Interim 3 July 1990
NSFNET
Acceptable Use Policy
The purpose of NSFNET is to support research and education in and
among academic institutions in the U.S. by providing access to unique
resources and the opportunity for collaborative work.
This statement represents a guide to the acceptable use of the NSFNET
backbone. It is only intended to address the issue of use of the
backbone. It is expected that the various middle level networks will
formulate their own use policies for traffic that will not traverse
the backbone.
(1) All use must be consistent with the purposes of NSFNET.
(2) The intent of the use policy is to make clear certain cases
which are consistent with the purposes of NSFNET, not to
exhaustively enumerate all such possible uses.
(3) The NSF NSFNET Project Office may at any time make
determinations that particular uses are or are not
consistent with the purposes of NSFNET. Such determinations
will be reported to the NSFNET Policy Advisory Committee
and to the user community.
(4) If a use is consistent with the purposes of NSFNET, then
activities in direct support of that use will be considered
consistent with the purposes of NSFNET. For example,
administrative communications for the support infrastructure
needed for research and instruction are acceptable.
(5) Use in support of research or instruction at not-for-profit
institutions of research or instruction in the United States
is acceptable.
(6) Use for a project which is part of or supports a research or
instruction activity for a not-for-profit institution of
research or instruction in the United States is acceptable,
even if any or all parties to the use are located or
employed elsewhere. For example, communications directly
between industrial affiliates engaged in support of a
project for such an institution is acceptable.
(7) Use for commercial activities by for-profit institutions is
generally not acceptable unless it can be justified under
(4) above. These should be reviewed on a case-by-case basis
by the NSF Project Office.
(8) Use for research or instruction at for-profit institutions
may or may not be consistent with the purposes of NSFNET,
and will be reviewed by the NSF Project Office on a
case-by-case basis.