Legal: 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

CAIDA Acceptable Use Agreement (AUA) - General AUA for non-publicly available datasets
- Public-AUA for publicly accessible datasets
- Telescope data Supplement
Archipelago Memorandum of Cooperation (MOC) Between Hosting Sites and CAIDA
Passive Internet Trace Collection Memorandum of Cooperation

Reference Documents

The Menlo Report : Ethical Principles Guiding Information and Communication Technology Research
- 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”
- A Companion to the Menlo Report details the principles and applications more granularly and illustrates their implementation in real and synthetic case studies.
Institutional Review Board (IRB): The UCSD 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).
- About the IRB Approval Process
- CAIDA’s IRB Application - CAIDA’s Application to the UCSD Human Research Protections Program (HRPP)