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CREN Information Center CREN NET_USE October 3, 1990
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Suite 600, 1112 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 (202) 872-4200
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Corporation for Research and Educational Networking
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Acceptable Use Policy
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CREN networks are for the use of persons legitimately affiliated with
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CREN Member or Affiliate organizations, to facilitate the exchange of
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information consistent with the academic, educational and research purposes
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of its members. All individuals affiliated with CREN Member or Affiliate
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organizations are responsible for seeing that their communities are aware
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of these guidelines, and that the guidelines are followed, both in letter
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and in spirit.
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CREN networks are, at the discretion of the institutions involved,
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open to use by students enrolled at participating CREN Member or Affiliate
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educational institutions.
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Use of CREN networks shall:
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* Be consistent with the purposes and goals of the networks
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* Avoid interfering with the work of other users of the
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networks
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* Avoid disrupting the network host systems (nodes)
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* Avoid disrupting network services
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Acceptable Use of the Networks
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The following examples may help users of the networks apply these
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principles in particular cases.
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* Messages that are likely to result in the loss of recipients'
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work or systems are prohibited.
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* CREN networks are not to be used for commercial purposes, such
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as marketing, reselling bandwith, or business transactions
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between commercial organizations.
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* Advertising is forbidden. Discussion of a product's relative
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advantages and disadvantages by users of the product is
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encouraged. Vendors may respond to questions about their
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products as long as the responses are not in the nature of
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advertising.
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* CREN networks may be used for the provision of services which
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support the needs and purposes of the CREN networks, and for
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which a charge is made, if the network is an optional mechanism
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for provision of this service for which no additional charge is
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made, and as long as the use of the service is consistent with
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the bandwidth of the network and the forwarding hosts.
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Providers of such information may be non-profit or for-profit
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organizations.
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* Any communication which violates applicable laws and regulations
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is not allowed.*
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Users of CREN networks are expected to be responsible in their use:
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* "Chain letters," "broadcasting" messages to lists or
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individuals, and other types of use which would cause congestion
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of the networks or otherwise interfere with the work of others
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are not allowed.
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* Bitnet files will be limited to sizes determined and reviewed
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periodically. (Note: The current limit is 300,000 bytes per
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file transmitted.)
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CREN Members or Affiliates are expected to take reasonable measures
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(given the constraints of technology and management) to ensure that traffic
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using gateways between CREN networks and other networks conforms to these
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guidelines.
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Final authority for CREN acceptable use policies lies with the CREN
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Board. It is the responsibility of member representatives to contact the
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CREN Board, in writing, regarding questions of interpretation. Until such
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issues are resolved, questionable use should be considered "not
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acceptable."
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* In particular, messages and data sent to destinations outside the US
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must satisfy the Department of Commerce regulations (either be within
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the GTDA guidelines for information which may be generally
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transmitted or have the required license).
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