Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:02:24 -0400
From: "La Monte H.P. Yarroll" <piggy@timesys.com>
To: rob@landley.net
Subject: More NSFNet AUP documents

This is a secondary source without citations but looks fairly complete:
http://listserv.aoir.org/pipermail/air-l-aoir.org/2002-May/001954.html
Key points: The AUP itself did not go away until 1994, but by 1991 there
were significant commercial alternatives (CIX), so the NSFNET AUP was
of diminishing interest.

Here is a primary source with shows the continued existence of the AUP
as of October 1993: http://newsletters.mv.net/199310/

This document shows that there was a change to the AUP in June 1990:
http://www.columbia.edu/~rh120/ch106.x12. It also mentions the creation
of ANS on May 29, 1990, which is arguably the start of the official
commercial Internet. Apparently, enforcement of the AUP was semi-officially
dropped well before the AUP itself was altered.  This is a secondary source
but has a lot of citations of primary sources.

Here is a flame from David Farber about the ANS/CIX marriage:
http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/199311/msg00090.html

This secondary document cites the "Scientific and Advanced-Technology Act," 1992 as
responsible for ammending the NSFNET AUP to allow some commercial use:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:Cmx3qNj4XH8J:www.governingwithcode.org/journal_articles/pdf/Backbone.pdf+nsfnet+AUP+removed&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=18&client=firefox-a

If you can find an archive of com-priv@psi.com, you will find a treasure-trove
of primary material for this transition.
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