Introduction
FABRIC is a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded scientific infrastructure for open research. As a condition of using FABRIC for experimentation, you agree to the terms and conditions of usage in the Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). This policy applies to everyone who uses FABRIC resources or data, whether physically located on a campus hosting FABRIC resources or remotely accessing them.
Project Lead Overview
FABRIC Project Leads have additional administrative rights, and, consequently responsibilities. They can authorize new users to join projects, which provides users with the ability to request FABRIC resources. Project leads should ideally have prior experience managing scientific or technical research teams and resources.
Project Lead Expectations
Project Leads must be responsive to FABRIC or FABRIC experimenter inquiries about their project members whom they initially vet. Thus, we prefer people who expect to remain at their current organization.
Project leads should be familiar with FABRIC and its capabilities.
Project Leads and Project Owners take responsibility for the activities of Project
Members/experimenters they add to their Projects. Any activities that are deemed illegal, unethical or disruptive may result in a loss of Project Lead or Project Owner privileges or a loss of access to the testbed entirely.
All project personnel regardless of status (Lead or experimenter) will abide by the FABRIC AUP.
Granting Project Lead Status
The following people can be granted project lead status:
- FABRIC-affiliated principal investigators (PIs)
- Academic faculty at US academic institutions, but not students and usually not
temporary faculty (lecturer, post-doc, etc.) except by exception. - Senior technical/IT staff (at academic institutions, commercial businesses, non-profits, or
research institutes) - Those with titles such as: “CTO”, “Director”, “Associate Director”, “Architect”, “Senior
Engineer”, etc., but not temporary employees or interns. - Project leads from countries with which there is not already an active FABRIC
collaboration may require review by NSF. - Project leads residing in OFAC countries will not be approved.
(https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/office-of-foreign-assets-control-sanctions-progra
ms-and-information)
Project Lead Requests should be submitted via FABRIC Help Portal.
If someone is not covered by the above criteria policy, an exception request should be submitted to the FABRIC Help Portal with the following information:
Short description of the experiment.
- Affiliation of person.
- Explanation as to why FABRIC is useful for the intended purpose.
- Written confirmation that the intended purpose is not illegal, unethical, or likely to harm FABRIC.
FABRIC Staff may request clarifications or answers to additional questions.
Approval Workflow
Once submitted, the FABRIC team will verify the below and approve:
- The requester has an appropriate title at a reasonable institution.
- The request includes a URL for a listing that verifies name, affiliation, title, and matches
the registered email address. - The described research is not unethical, illegal or insufficiently described
- The described research has a problem that is appropriate for testing on a testbed
The final decision, including taking into account any exceptional circumstances lies with the FABRIC staff. The requester will be notified by email generated from the Help Portal, whether their request has been granted or denied.
Feedback
If you have any questions about this policy, please write to us using the Help Portal.