Date: 2 Jul 90
From: Bill Bostwick <[email protected]>


          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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