acceptable use policy

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acceptable use policy - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  Acceptable Use Policy
  
     <networking> (AUP) Rules applied by many transit networks
     which restrict the use to which the network may be put.  A
     well known example is NSFNet which does not allow commercial
     use.  Enforcement of AUPs varies with the network.
  
     (1994-11-08)