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From: kmeyer@pollux.usc.edu (Kraig Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Growing sentiment against gateways
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Date: 7 Jun 90 21:32:11 GMT
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In some article someone wrote:
||> (One could argue that those "gateways" violate the access rules for
||> the Internet, since they cannot verify that the message came from an
||> authorized user of the Internet.)
  
In article <9006060613.AA00673@shamash.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> mouse@SHAMASH.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse) writes:
||You mean there *are* access rules for the modern Internet?  This sounds
||suspiciously as though you're thinking of the DARPA rules, which (it
||seems to me) don't really apply, with the demise of the ARPAnet core.

Most, if not all, of the regional networks attached to the NSFnet backbone
have appropriate usage guidelines.  Traffic which is solely for commercial
purposes is prohibited from traversing the NSFNet backbone--there are most
definitely rules which govern Internet access.  However, in the case of
gatewaying the tcp-ip mailing list to and from usenet I think it could very
easily be argued that this fits appropriate usage guidelines.
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