Merit GateD Consortium Documentation

New Membership Categories

Academic Supporting Membership

Privileges of Membership

The privileges of Academic Supporting Membership are for the tools, sources, and binaries related to one of the following GateD Product lines:

1. GateD Unicast (version 4)

(Click here for Version 4 Academic Suppporting License.)

2. GateD Multicast (version 5)

(Click here for Version 5 Academic Suppporting License.)

3. GateD IPv6 (version6)

(Click here for Version 6 Academic Suppporting License.)

You may obtain a membership in each of the product lines for a total of $15,000 (3 times $5,000).

The Privileges are:

Technical Privileges

a) Binary Distribution to registered machines. Registration of Machines can be done on the GateD Consortium Web page. Updating of the Machine registration can also be done via the GateD Web Page during the membership. Memberships last for 1 year. Academic and Research Members can update their membership via the GateD Consortium Web page.

b) Source code be distributed to registered machines only at the academic and research sites. Source code may not distributed in commerical products or to any other machines except to the registered machines.

c) Access to GateD Member-only Documentation and Tools.

d) Email Response to Technical Questions

Consortium

e) Regular communications including paper releases and electronic communications as appropriate. Such communications shall detail GateD Project and Consortium developments and progress.

f) 1 Voting Member may attend GateD Consortium Meetings containing Technical Briefs and Progress Review.

g) Invitation to attend periodic Technical Briefings and Progress Review. Academic Supporting Members shall have the following privileges:
• (i) input to GateD software development and deployment discussions,
• (ii) access at prescheduled times of mutual convenience to members of the GateD Project Development Team.

Research Privileges

h) Mention on the Merit GateD Web Pages for Products and Services.

i) Ability to post Papers related to GateD on the GateD-Research Page.

j) Any GateD Developer who develops source code or tools receives a special GateD Developer's t-shirt.

Membership Fees for Academic Supporting Membership

Yearly licenses for the Academic Supporting Members are:

$5,000 per product line ($15,000 for all three product lines)

Academic Supporting Members provide needed support for GateD to continue to be distributed to the Academic and Research Community. GateD Academic Supporting Member provide resources to help progress GateD for the Academic and Research Environment.

The Academic Supporting Member must:

1. Sign the Academic and Research Membership.

On-line signing is under investigation. For now, please pull a membership form, sign it and send it to:

Merit GateD Consortium
Merit Network, Inc.
4251 Plymouth Road, Suite C.
Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2785
phone: (313)764-9430
email: consortium-interest@gated.merit.edu
fax: (313)747-3185


1. Pay Membership fee.

Merit (through the University of Michigan) will bill the Academic Supporting Member's Institution.

2. Register all machines where GateD sources or binaries will be used.

The updating of machine registration may occur via email to the gated@gated.merit.edu or in the future via the Membership Merit GateD Web Page.

3. Must not redistribute the source or binaries to any non-registered machines, or in any commercial proudct.

gated@gated.merit.edu