Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!ucsd!ucbvax!agate!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: ANS Acceptable Use Policy Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 00:58:55 GMT References: <1991Mar29.151152.22304@ima.isc.com> <23952@well.sf.ca.us> Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 15 nagle@well.sf.ca.us (John Nagle) writes: > Where does ANS get the authority to make policy? ANS is a subcontractor >to MERIT, which is a contractor to the National Science Foundation. ANS provides a service to MERIT and the NSF. I don't see any reason why ANS couldn't provide similar services to others, so long as they meet their end of the deal with MERIT. ANS cannot set a policy that would violate the terms of their agreement with MERIT. Need I go on? -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]