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Date: 2 Jul 90 From: Bill Bostwick BOSTWICK@DARPA.MIL

         FRICC POLICY ON INTERCONNECTIVITY AND RESOURCE SHARING

Within the participating government agencies of the Federal Research

Internet Coordinating Committee (FRICC), there exist today varying policies

on the acceptable use of each agency's networking resources. This policy

statement set forth by the FRICC will establish both a short-term and

longer-term policy agreed to by the FRICC participating members. Mid-level

networks that use FRICC shared resources must conform to this policy.

For the short term, the FRICC policy is relatively simple and is primarily

motivated by the cost savings to the Federal government. This policy will

be in effect from mid fiscal year 1989 through fiscal year 1991.

   1.   The member agencies of the FRICC agree to share the use of network 
        data links, both domestic and foreign, whenever possible.  This 
        will include the gatewaying of major backbone resources of the 
        participating agencies within the continental United States.
   2.   The member agencies of the FRICC agree to carry all traffic that 
        meets the acceptable use policy of the originating member agency.  
        In the least restrictive case, this includes all bona fide 
        researchers and scholars, public and private, from the United 
        States and foreign countries unless denied access by national 
        policy.
   3.   The member agencies of the FRICC will maintain the prerogative to 
        limit or shut off the shared use of interconnected resources 
        during periods when guaranteed bandwidth might be required by the 
        proprietary agency.
   4.   The FRICC will comply with OMB Circular A-130 through estimates of 
        shared traffic and ongoing research and development enabling the 
        identification and metering of traffic through gateways or other 
        means.

For the long term, the FRICC policy is a transition to a National Research

Network to be operated commercially. The FRICC will support the research

and development required for the administrative policy controls and counting

mechanisms that will make this transition possible.

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