Data Stewardship Agreements

The rapid evolution in networking technologies continually raises legal and ethical questions. CAIDA seeks to make transparent our role, goals, and specific data collection, use and disclosure activities. Below is a list of the various policies and agreements that govern our relationships with entities that host our data collection infrastructure, access and use our data and resources, or are otherwise relevant to our network measurement and data stewardship activities.

If you have questions or comments, contact data-info@caida.org.

CAIDA Data Stewardship Agreements

Acceptable Use Agreement (Non-Public data AUA)
Archipelago Measurement Infrastructure: Archipelago (Ark) Site Acceptable Use Policy (AUP)
Passive Internet Trace Collection Memorandum of Cooperation
CAIDA Tools Copyright Notice
Proprietary Data Agreement
Ethical Principles Guiding Information and Communication Technology Research: The Menlo Report.
- A Companion Report details the principles and applications more granularly and illustrates their implementation in real and synthetic case studies.
- The Interaction of the Menlo Report and Revisions to the Common Rule-Comments in Response to the Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM).
- Federal Register Response to Comments Received for the "The Menlo Report: Ethical Principles Guiding Information and Communication Technology Research"
Institutional Review Board Application - CAIDA's Application to the UCSD Human Research Protections Program
Institutional Review Board Approval Process - The UCSD Human Research Protections Program (HRPP) office assists researchers in complying with federal, state and University policies regarding experimentation involving human subjects, and oversees the review and conduct of research conducted by federally registered Institutional Review Boards (IRBs).

CAIDA staff/visitor Data and Resource Agreements

Computer Facilities Usage Agreement
(alternate format: postscript | PDF)
Privileged Access Usage Agreement
(alternate format: postscript | PDF)
Data Privacy Agreement for non-anonymized passive traces
(alternate format: postscript | PDF)

Former Agreements (No Longer Active)

On June 30, 2006, National Science Foundation funding for the National Laboratory for Advanced Network Research (NLANR) project expired and NLANR officially ended. In July 2006, CAIDA assumed operational stewardship for the NLANR machines and data. CAIDA used the following AUPs in incorporating former NLANR infrastructure into CAIDA's ongoing data collection activities:

COMMONS Project: COMMONS Site Acceptable Use Agreement
Former PMA passive trace collection sites: NLANR PMA Site Acceptable Use Agreement
Former AMP active measurement sites: Archipelago Node Usage
SD Network Access Point (SDNAP) Participation Agreement