MSU-Northern ResNet Acceptable Use Policy
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MSU-Northern Information Technology Services provides a residential network (ResNet) to its Residence Hall for educational, instructional, and entertainment purposes. Use of these services is a privilege. It is the responsibility of each student to use these services appropriately and responsibly in compliance with all University, City, County, State, and Federal laws and regulations. This policy is in addition to MSU-Northern and MUS Board of Regent policies which include, but are not limited to, student conduct and those that prohibit harassment, discrimination, etc. MSU-Northern ResNet reserves the right to restrict access, availability of access, and enforce the terms of this agreement. Connecting to a ResNet data, voice, or cable TV jack signals your FULL agreement and understanding of this Acceptable Use Policy and any future modifications thereto.

1. Use of connected networks and the Internet must be consistent with the rules and acceptable use policies established for those networks by their providers.
2. Users shall abide by all applicable copyright laws and licenses. The ResNet may only be used for legal purposes and to access only those systems, software and data that the user is authorized to use. Sharing access to copyrighted software or other copyrighted materials (including MP3 files from copyrighted music media and digitized video from copyrighted motion pictures, etc) is prohibited unless specifically authorized by the copyright holder.
3. The residential network is a shared resource. Consequentially, network uses or applications that use excessive bandwidth or otherwise inhibit or interfere with the use of the network by others are not permitted.
4. In order to help protect the University network against computer viruses, worms and Trojan horse programs that can cause damage or pirate information, each computer connected to the ResNet network must have recognized anti-virus software installed.
5. Forgery of other misrepresentation of one's identity via email or any other form of communication is a violation of University policy. This includes forging of IP addresses and/or NIC addresses to conceal your computer's identity and the use of forged or false identity when using certain email programs (i.e. pop-mail clients such as Eudora, Netscape, Outlook, Outlook Express, etc) and is grounds for losing your campus network privileges.
6. ResNet may not be used to provide Internet or MSU-Northern network access to anyone outside of the ResNet community for any purpose.
7. The provision of network services from user computers (e.g., HTTP, BBS, Chat, DHCP, DNS, FTP, IRC, NNTP, POP2/POP3, SMTP, Telnet, WINS, etc.) is prohibited.
8. Commercial or for-profit use of ResNet access is prohibited.
9. Any user who attempts to circumvent or defeat the ResNet firewall or any other mechanism put in place by ResNet to manage the network will be subject to immediate termination of service and possible disciplinary action.
10. Any unauthorized attempt to access another computer (on or off campus) is prohibited. Any reports received by the ResNet administration of unauthorized attempts to access other computers will result in the immediate disconnection of the suspected network connection until the matter has been resolved. Some examples of unauthorized attempts to access are password cracking programs, port scanning any computer that is not owned by the person doing the scanning, and gaining access or attempting to gain access to another computer without the owners' permission.
11. Users are ultimately responsible for the security and integrity of their systems, data and all traffic originating from their machine. ResNet users will not hold MSU-Northern liable for malicious acts by other network users.
12. ResNet services and wiring may not be modified or extended by users for any purpose. This applies to all cabled wiring, hardware, data jacks, related hardware and network or Internet services. Hubs, mini-hubs, remote access servers and/or any equipment that may change the network topology or deny others service are not allowed on ResNet.
13. Costs to repair physical damage to the ResNet hardware in the room or apartment (including wiring, data jack, conduit or box) will be assessed to the resident.
14. Only one IP address will be assigned to each registered computer. Residents may not have multiple IP addresses per computer. Only one computer may be registered to each individual student at any given time.
15. Residents understand that the network extended to student rooms is the property of the University and that the campus network administrators monitor and inspect network traffic for the purposes of assuring the proper operation of the network, fair allocation of resources, and for other lawful purposes. There is no expectation of privacy in the use of this University resource.
16. Use of ResNet implies user's consent for ResNet administration or its agents to monitor activities/traffic via the user's data connection for the purpose of determining compliance with this agreement.
17. ResNet reserves the right to immediately disconnect any computer that is sending disruptive signals to the network as a whole, whether because of a defective cable, Ethernet card, or other hardware or software problem. It will be the user's responsibility to correct any such problem before the computer can be reconnected to ResNet.
18. If you have a reason to believe that another user or group of users is interfering with your access to the network, you may report the problem to the ITS Help Desk ext. 3765 and expect that the ITS network administrators will investigate and if necessary take corrective action.

ResNet reserves the right to modify, change and reformat this document as it deems necessary without permission or consent of its network users. A copy of this AUP will remain available via ReNet's web site.

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