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**Operating Rules**

NIST will only accept open source submissions, per the Open Source Initiative’s definition of “open source”. Upon submission, materials will be public, considered to be open source, and may be altered and shared.

This is a moderated platform. NIST reserves the right to reject, remove, or edit any submission, including anything that:

promotes pay-for services or products;
	includes personally identifiable or business identifiable information according to Department of Commerce Office of Privacy and Open Government guidelines;
	is inaccurate;
	contains abusive or vulgar content, spam, hate speech, personal attacks, or similar content;
	is clearly "off topic";
	makes unsupported accusations; or,
	contains .exe or .jar file types.**These file types will not be merged into the NIST repository; instead, NIST may link to these if hosted elsewhere.

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