I receive requests for further explanation of some of the standard rules that are in the document, so if you'd like to see those, you are welcome to see my Questions/Answers section.

If you would more information on the how to access the full guide, through mail, ftp, and gopher, please see Access Information.

I frequently get asked to consult organizations on developing Ethics Policies. Generally I would point them to the Ethics Policies of other universities or network organizations. Recently at FAU we had 5 separate incidences of network abuses that originated from a student run Usenet newsfeed system called Cybernet. Cybernet had the domain address of FAU.EDU and Information Resource Management (IRM) was contacted by the Internet Computer Emergency Response Team, regarding the abuses which were effecting the reputation of FAU on the Internet.

To make a *very* long story short. I worked with Wes Morgan, who had developed a network policy for U of Kentucky that had never been approved by his organization, and developed the Computer Network Policy . This has been approved by IRM and beginning in January, 1995 all students, faculty and staff receiving accounts must sign this prior to getting their accounts. I thought that this might be useful for other organizations as well.

The Network Computing Policy in Postscript version in now available. Organizations can use and copy this in its entirety onto their letterhead stationary. It is "standard" enough to be used by any organization where users access network services. If there is someone that will allow me to upload this to their anonymous FTP server for user downloads, please let me know, as FAU still does not have an anonymous FTP server.