University of Manitoba The Univ. of Manitoba's Policy on the use of computer facilities says (under Unauthorized Use): (iv) Transmitting commercial or personal advertisements, solicitations or promotions using the Facilities; [the full policy can be found, referenced at the bottom of the UofManitoba homepage: http://www.umanitoba.ca/ ] The policy helps make it pretty clear. A warning for first offenders is usually enough to educate them. We encourage people to get a private account at a local ISP if they need one for commercial purposes.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute At RPI, we do not allow commercial use of our network/domain. We do allow our students to get direct ethernet/internet connection. Several of these have then gone on to register their XXX.stu.rpi.edu machines in the .com or .org domains - when we disover that that has happened, they are removed from the net until such references are removed. The concern about commercial use is primarly due to license agreements with hardware and software vendors, and our ISP. The tax exempt status is a secondary concern. (There are parts of RPI that are not fully tax exempt - some property and some athletic facilites for example). For more commercial operations, many move to our incubator center. We do have a gateway to our Incubator Center (lots of small, commercial operations), which does allow RPI folks to connect to their systems. However, this gateway only allows traffic from the Incubator net to the RPI Net, and nothing else. In this way, the incubator center machines can NOT use the RPI T3 gateway to the Internet. The Incubator net has it's own gateway to the Internet. We do allow Alumni to get accounts on our system. They are actually on a specifically designated "alumni machine". This machine does not have access to many of the educational program packages that are available under the regular system. These accounts are intended for Usenet and Email access and commercial use is forbidden. The alumni program is managed by the Alumni Development department. Things are set up so when a student account is set to expire (due to graduation), and if they have signed up for the alumni account, their student account will be automatically converted to an alumni account - the individual keeps the same account, email address, password and files, allowing uninterrupted service. This is especially popular with graduating seniors who can list the user@RPI.EDU email address with prospective employers, and keep it active even after they leave RPI. More information on the alumni program can be found at: http://www.alumni.rpi.edu/Services/rann.html

Indiana University Hello all. Here are two things related to commercial use and advertising on university-owned resources at IU. The first is our current base policy (from http://www.indiana.edu/~ucspubs/iu001/) as related to commercial use and advertising. The second is an "interpretation" that I will am working on and will issue when finished and endorsed. We try to rest everything on the base policy, and use interpretations to answer questions about various applications of the policy. Our Internet connectivity is done through CICNet, who subsequently contracts with MCI for Internet access. Many of the Big(11)Ten schools do this. To my knowledge, our agreement with CICNet doesn't say anything about restrictions on use of our Internet capability.

****************Current Policy ******* "Institutional Purposes Use of IU computing resources is for purposes related to the university's mission of education, research, and public service. All classes of computer service user may use computing resources only for purposes related to their studies, their instruction, the discharge of their duties as employees, their official business with the university, and their other university-sanctioned activities. The use of IU computing resources for commercial purposes is permitted only by special arrangement with the appropriate computing center or computer system administrator. " Ethical Use Computing resources should be used in accordance with the high ethical standards of the university community as described in the "Code of Student Ethics" and the "Academic Handbook." Examples of unethical use follow; some of them may also be illegal. Violations of computer system security. Unauthorized use of computer accounts, access codes, or network identification numbers assigned to others. Intentional use of computer telecommunication facilities in ways that unnecessarily impede the computing activities of others (randomly initiating interactive electronic communications or e-mail exchanges, overuse of interactive network utilities, and so forth). Use of computing facilities for private business purposes unrelated to the mission of the university or university life. Academic dishonesty (plagiarism, cheating). Violation of software license agreements. Violation of network usage policies and regulations. Violation of another user's privacy. " *********Interpretation******** This interpretation describes acceptable uses, limitations, and procedures for advertising and promotion on Indiana University-owned computing systems. 1. Only products and services provided directly by Indiana University may be advertised on University-owned computing resources. Specifically, no fee-based product or service for which the University does not process payment may be advertised. a. Members of the Indiana University community may not use university-owned computing resources to advertise or promote private enterprises via the World-Wide-web (WWW) or other Internet-based information exchange media. b. Members of the Indiana University community may not use their personally assigned file space on university-owned computing resources to advertise the products or services of a local, regional, orinternational business with or without remuneration. c. Members of the Indiana University community may not use their private computer to advertise the products or services of a local, regional, or international business with or without remuneration, if communications to and from this personal computer are accomplished via a University-owned communications infrastructure such as data or voice networks. 2. Information about other providers of products and services may be included on university-owned computing resources, if the page states explicitly that it is not an endorsement of commercial products or services or companies by Indiana University, and if a. the information is provided for educational purposes and if the pointer itself cannot reasonably be considered to be an advertisement. For example, a link on a WWW page to a site selling books related to a specific field of study represented by that WWW page would be acceptable; or b. the computing resource is funded or subsidized by an educational grant from a particular company. In this case, the phrase "Development of this information resource was made possible by a grant from Acme Company" or similar wording would be acceptable. 3. Any Indiana University product or service that is advertised in print or other media may also be advertised on university-owned computer resources where appropriate. 4. Advertisements for Indiana University products and services on university-owned computing resources are to be consistent with the policies governing university promotional and marketing activities in other media such as print, radio, and television. The purpose of these activities is to better serve the learning and instructional needs of members of the university and surrounding communities by increasing their awareness of and access to the University's educational programs, services and products. Similarly, advertising on the Web must conform both legally and ethically to the standards governing Indiana University as a public, non-profit institution committed to teaching, research, and service. Further, Indiana University will be a "good network citizen" by observing accepted practices regarding direct mail, Usenet posting, and other activities that affect the overall performance and quality of the Internet. 5. As of July 10, 1997, electronic transfers of funds and credit card payments via the WWW are not considered secure. Therefore, the University will receive payment for products or services advertised on Web servers or other computing resources only through conventional methods such as postal mail, telephone, and FAX. Methods of electronic payment may be implemented at some future date when concerns about privacy, security, and integration with Indiana University financial systems have been satisfactorily resolved.