Though I'm not sure about the distinction you are making between "complies" and "will comply". You're right: the words "that will transit the NSFNET backbone" makes "will comply" superfluous, so "complies" will do. But I will run it by some others here just to be sure we aren't taking the law unto ourselves, so to speak. Of course! OK, after this first pass through the text, I'm getting even more picky: networks cannot agree to anything, only their administrators can! So here's my latest & greatest proposal for a new text: The administrators of the following networks for which access is requested to the NSFNET backbone, agree that traffic from these networks that will transit the NSFNET backbone complies with the "NSFNET BACKBONE SERVICES ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY" dated June 1992 Piet