wisner@shadooby.cc.umich.edu (Bill Wisner) (03/13/89)
If there is such a policy, nobody pays any attention to it.
woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) (03/14/89)
In article <1859@edison.GE.COM> rja@edison.CHO.GE.COM writes: >In the past the Internet had a policy that traffic not originating >or terminating at an Internet site wasn't to be transported over >the Internet as an intermediate transport mechanism. That may have been an ARPAnet policy, but seeing as how the Internet is now made up of networks connected together that are themselves separate administrative entities, I don't think one can speak of an "Internet" policy on this kind of thing. I know that the NSFnet policy has no prohibition against this kind of traffic unless it is commercial in nature (at least, that's what I've been told). --Greg
davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) (03/15/89)
Is there an RFC which actually formalizes the policy and/or regulations?
There was one on network ethics, but that's not the same thing, and it
was post-virus. The gist of it was "don't do things which mess up other
people."
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bill davidsen (wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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