66 lines
2.5 KiB
Plaintext
66 lines
2.5 KiB
Plaintext
|
|
|
|
|
|
NORTHWESTNET ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NorthWestNet is a regional data communications network serving a
|
|
consortium of universities and research groups in the northwest-
|
|
ern part of the United States. Its goals are summarized in the
|
|
Articles of Incorporation for the Northwest Academic Computing
|
|
Consortium, Inc. All use of NorthWestNet facilities must be
|
|
consistent with the goals and purposes of NorthWestNet. The
|
|
intent of this statement is to describe certain uses which are
|
|
consistent with the purposes of NorthWestNet, not to exhaustively
|
|
enumerate all such possible uses.
|
|
|
|
Some acceptable uses of NorthWestNet facilities include:
|
|
|
|
o use for scientific research or instruction at member and
|
|
associate member institutions through the provision of
|
|
high-speed data communications;
|
|
|
|
o use as a vehicle for scholarly communications;
|
|
|
|
o use as a means for NorthWestNet members to access remote
|
|
computing resources for the purpose of scientific
|
|
research or instruction. Notable examples of such
|
|
resources are the NSF supercomputing facilities;
|
|
|
|
o use necessary to support other acceptable uses. For
|
|
example, administrative communications which are part of
|
|
the support infrastructure needed for research and
|
|
instruction are acceptable. Similarly, communications
|
|
directly between non-member institutions in support of
|
|
research or instruction at member institutions is
|
|
acceptable;
|
|
|
|
o use required by agreements with NSF, the primary funding
|
|
agency for NorthWestNet;
|
|
|
|
o use by member institutions as a laboratory for research
|
|
and experimentation in computer communications, where
|
|
such use does not interfere with production usage.
|
|
However, any experimental use requiring modification to
|
|
router software or protocol layers below ISO layer 4
|
|
requires prior review by the Technical Committee.
|
|
|
|
In general, commercial and general administrative use are prohib-
|
|
ited. Use for scientific research or instruction at non-member
|
|
institutions and at for-profit institutions may or may not be
|
|
consistent with the purposes of NorthWestNet, and will be re-
|
|
viewed on a case by case basis.
|
|
|
|
Use of NorthWestNet for any illegal purpose, or to achieve
|
|
unauthorized access to systems, software, or data is prohibited.
|
|
|
|
NorthWestNet is a production communications network on which many
|
|
researchers depend. Uses that significantly interfere with the
|
|
ability of other users to make effective use of the network are
|
|
not acceptable.
|
|
|
|
05/12/88
|
|
|
|
|