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           Proposed Uninet-za Acceptable Use Guidelines
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DRAFT

UNINET

                      Acceptable Use Policy

The purpose of UNINET is to support research and other scholarly activities in the Republic of South Africa by providing access to unique resources and the opportunity for collaborative work.

This statement represents a guide to the acceptable use of the UNINET trunk circuits. It is intended to address only the issue of use of the trunk circuits. It is expected that various other networks in the RSA will formulate their own use policies for traffic that will not traverse the trunk circuits. The trunk circuits in question are not limited to those that are in their entirety within the Republic of South Africa, but include all international circuits, connections and gateways as well.

(1) All use must be consistent with the purposes of UNINET.

(2) The intent of this policy is to make clear certain uses which are

  consistent with the purposes of UNINET, not to exhaustively enumerate
  all such possible uses.

(3) The UNINET Project Office may at any time make determinations

  that particular uses are or are not consistent with the purposes of
  UNINET.  Such determinations will be reported to the Uninet Control
  Board and to the UNINET user community.

(4) If a use is consistent with the purposes of UNINET, then

  activities in direct support of that use will be considered
  consistent with the purposes of UNINET.  For example, administrative
  communications for the support infrastructure needed for research and
  instruction are acceptable.

(5) Use in support of research or instruction at not-for-profit

  institutions of research or instruction in the Republic of South
  Africa is acceptable.

(6) Use for a project which is part of or supports a research or

  instruction activity for a not-for-profit institution of research or
  instruction in the Republic of South Africa is acceptable, even if
  any or all parties to the use are located or employed elsewhere.  For
  example, communications directly between industrial affiliates
  engaged in support of a project for such an institution is
  acceptable.

(7) Use for commercial activities by for-profit institutions is

  generally not acceptable unless it can be justified under (4) above.

(8) Use for research or instruction at for-profit institutions may or

  may not be consistent with the purposes of UNINET, and will be
  reviewed by the UNINET Project Office on a case-by-case basis.

DRAFT September 1990

Without question, the use of the NSFNET Guidelines as a basis is acknowledged.

Mike Lawrie 5 September 1990

—Statement by Rhodes University—-

Rhodes University is an autonomous institution, founded by the Rhodes University Act of 1951. Control of the University is vested in the Council, which elects its own Chairman. The Chancellor, elected by the Council, is the Head of the University and is empowered, in the name of the university, to confer all degrees. The Principal and Vice-Chancellor is the chief academic and administrative officer of the University, and is ex officio a member of the Council and the Chairman of the Senate.

The Council consists of a maximum of 31 members, as follows: The Principal, the Vice-Principal, four members appointed by the State President, four elected by the Senate, three elected by Convocation (ie graduates) two elected by the donors, a representative of each of the Municipalities of Grahamstown, Port Elizabeth, East London, King William's Town, Queenstown and Uitenhage, one representative of schools in the Eastern Province, one representative of associated research institutions, not more than four persons appointed by such bodies as may be prescribed by the Statute, and not more than four members co-opted in terms of Section 7(1)(m) of the Rhodes University Act.

Rhodes University has always been proud of its stance for academic freedom. In this regard, there is a strong record of opposition to the discriminatory race-based laws that have prevented academically qualified persons from pursuing their studies by what is considered to be normal methods and under normal conditions.

The University is not associated with any apartheid-enforcing entities. The University will not knowingly permit any of the information that flows through its computer systems to be used by, or made available directly or indirectly to any apartheid enforcing entity or police or military entities or any entity identified by the United States Department of State as enforcing apartheid as reflected in Supplement No 1 to Part 785 of the Export Administration Regulations.

Further, the University will co-operate fully with any investigation by United States officials into any alleged breach of this undertaking.

Signed for and on behalf of Rhodes University

(Registrar, Rhodes University)

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