<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On Dec 22, 2015, at 11:52 AM, John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@istaff.org" class="">jcurran@istaff.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="">...<br class="">After the NSFNET AUP was changed in 1991, there was a collective sign of relief (and we <br class="">stopped asking prospective customers for their research/educational purpose for connecting<br class="">to the Internet…)</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Ah - a nice reference to the rather subtle nature of the change made to the NSFNET AUP in </div><div>late 1990 turns out to be contained in the report of the "Commercialization of the Internet” </div><div>workshop that was held at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in 1990 and that is </div><div>published as RFC 1191 - <<a href="https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1192.txt" class="">https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1192.txt</a>>. On page 2 -</div><div><div class=""><pre style="word-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> 'Under the draft acceptable use policy in effect from 1988 to mid-
1990, use of the NSFNET backbone had to support the purpose of
"scientific research and other scholarly activities." The interim
policy promulgated in June 1990 is the same, except that the purpose
of the NSFNET is now "to support research and education in and among
academic institutions in the U.S. by access to unique resources and
the opportunity for collaborative work." '</pre><div class="">Not much of a change, but it was enough to allow service providers to sign up folks without </div></div><div class="">explicitly seeking their research/scholarly purpose...</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">FYI,</div><div class="">/John</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><br class=""></body></html>