Institutional WWW Account Information & Policy
Any Yale-affiliated organization is eligible for WWW space on the ITS Institutional WWW server. The organization receives an account and 20 MB of space at no charge, and 21-100 MB is available for $100 per year. Research groups requiring more space and/or publishing services should contact research@yale.edu.
To apply for an institutional WWW account, the head of the organization (Chairs for departments, Deans for Schools, Presidents for registered student organizations must submit a request to the Webmaster. The request must identify a contact person who will maintain the account on a day-to-day basis. The WWW account is usually created within three business days from application submission.
The institutional WWW machine is www.yale.edu. URLs will be in the form http://www.yale.edu/account_name, where account_name is the first or second choice submitted on the application. If you have any questions or comments, please send email to webmaster@yale.edu.
Policy
- This account is to be used only for the serving of WWW based documents by approved University organizations and departments. The account is not to be used for the sending of electronic mail, reading NetNews, telnetting or any other Internet-related activity. The server is not to be used for personal WWW pages, for the benefit of third parties, or for profit-making activities without authorization from ITS. WWW space is only available to Yale-related organizations.
- This server is not to be used for the construction of HTML. Due to performance demands, all page-building must be done off-line. Users should log on only to upload and download files. Users found logging on for extended periods of time may face forfeiture of institutional space privileges.
- The organizational "Contact Person" is liable for any misuse of the organizational account. If the account is found to have violated University or ITS policy, the contact person as well as the organization may be subject to University and/or legal sanctions. For information about adding or changing a contact person, go to http://www.yale.edu/webmaster/grantaccess.html.
- CGI access is no longer available on the www server. The machine known as bin.yale.edu provides users with access to a variety of scripting and programming tools.
- This account must be renewed each September.
- WWW policy may change without notice. ITS also reserves the right to make any technical changes on this server as necessary. ITS will always endeavor to give users prior warning of such changes, although such warning may not always be possible. This policy is available at http://www.yale.edu/policy. Users should periodically review this statement and watch http://www.yale.edu/webmaster to learn of changes in policy.
If you have any questions concerning your account, these guidelines, or University WWW policy in general, feel free to email the Web Team at webmaster@yale.edu.
