Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!ox.com!emv From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: Georgia Tech's Restriction on Internet Access Message-ID: Date: 14 Mar 91 04:01:01 GMT References: <52892@cornell.UUCP> <23887@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Mar12.011216.10215@athena.mit.edu> Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: OTA Limited Partnership, Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: lear@turbo.bio.net's message of 14 Mar 91 02:37:24 GMT In article lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: I'm sorry, you're right. It indeed may not be an NSF requirement, but I believe that FARNET members are requiring that subscribers be able to identify who is/was? using the Internet at a given time. Michnet seems to be jumping through some hoops right now to able to support these kinds of restrictions. nic.near.net:/docs/farnet-acceptable-use.txt has the most recent farnet suggested guidelines that I can find. The closest thing in it that I can see which would justify this kind of a policy is Access to the internet should be protected through the use of prudent security measures. Unauthorized connections to the internet should not be permitted. There may be further exegesis hiding somewhere describing what exactly they mean, but I haven't seen it. Eliot (or whoever), could you describe who and what FARNET is? All the opinion that I have of them so far is quite negative, with them more or less saying "you can't do that on the internet". Their press release promised more position papers on interesting things (network design and engineering, value-added services, commercialization) but so far I have not seen one bit of it. -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com