CREN/CSNET: The Computer + Science Network


            _A_d_d_r_e_s_s:
            CSNET Coordination and Information Center (CIC)
            Systems and Technologies Division
            Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (BBN)
            10 Moulton Street
            Cambridge, MA 02138

            _E_m_a_i_l: cic@cs.net

            _P_h_o_n_e: (617) 873-2777 (CSNET hotline)


            _D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n

            CSNET and BITNET merged in the autumn of 1989  to  form  the
            Corporation  for Research and Educational Networking (CREN).
            CSNET continues to supply international  data  communication
            through  TCP/IP  and allied email-only services.  Members of
            CREN/CSNET include universities, colleges, government  agen-
            cies,   nonprofit  organizations,  and  industrial  research
            laboratories in the U.S. and abroad.

            CSNET offers several connection options to serve  the  needs
            of  large  and  small  organizations.   The  options include
            dial-up  delivery  of  electronic  mail,  dial-up   IP-based
            interactive  service, and IP-based interactive service using
            leased telephone and X.25 circuits.

            CSNET also provides technical information to  network  users
            and support services to member organizations.  It operates a
            24-hour telephone hotline and a  "help"  mailbox,  publishes
            CSNET-FORUM (an online newsletter), and distributes documen-
            tation on network use  and  services  by  email  through  an
            automated document server and other automated servers.  Net-
            work users may access the same information by anonymous FTP.

            Network users may register themselves in the CSNET User Name
            Server,  an  automated directory database of users and hosts
            maintained at the CSNET Coordination and Information  Center
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            (CIC). The User Name Server may be queried by email or  tel-
            net.

            CSNET participates actively in Internet  organizations  such
            as the Federation of American Research Networks (FARNET) and
            working groups organized by the  Internet  Engineering  Task
            Force (IETF).

            _N_e_t_w_o_r_k _A_c_c_e_s_s

            Because CSNET offers email-only and dial-up  connections  as
            well  as  full  IP  services,  CSNET  takes  care to provide
            appropriate user and technical services for users  who  lack
            direct connections to the Internet.

            _W_h_o _C_a_n _U_s_e _t_h_e _N_e_t_w_o_r_k

            Any member organization may  use  the  support  services  of
            CSNET for technical and user information.  The email servers
            and  anonymous  FTP  files  are  open  to  anyone  with  the
            appropriate  access.   CSNET  members  can exchange messages
            with each other and with users of many  connected  networks,
            including  BITNET,  NSFNET,  Milnet, UUCP, and non-U.S. net-
            works.  Use of the network for purposes other than  research
            and education is not permitted.


























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