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========================================================================= Date: Tue, 16 Sep 1997 11:14:49 -0700
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
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Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: David Smith <smithx@SFU.CA>
Subject: history of acceptable use policies
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I'm trying to get a picture of the evolution of Internet acceptable use policies, particularly with respect to commercial use. As I understand up until about 1993 formally commercial use of the NSFNET was prohibited. I guess that by that time this was pretty much a dead letter since it would have been impossible to stop commercial traffic over the backbone coming from other networks. I read one source that said congress formally changed the NSF mandate in this regard in 1993.
I guess that now these kind of network wide AUP's are unenforceable. Were they ever formally abandoned, or did they just fall by the wayside?
David
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David Smith, Doctoral Student
School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, Canada
Internet: smithx@sfu.ca
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: David Smith <smithx@SFU.CA>
Subject: history of acceptable use policies
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______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
I'm trying to get a picture of the evolution of Internet acceptable use policies, particularly with respect to commercial use. As I understand up until about 1993 formally commercial use of the NSFNET was prohibited. I guess that by that time this was pretty much a dead letter since it would have been impossible to stop commercial traffic over the backbone coming from other networks. I read one source that said congress formally changed the NSF mandate in this regard in 1993.
I guess that now these kind of network wide AUP's are unenforceable. Were they ever formally abandoned, or did they just fall by the wayside?
David
--
David Smith, Doctoral Student
School of Communication, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, BC, Canada
Internet: smithx@sfu.ca
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