Access restrictions for students outside North America

[RMehr1]

Hello,

  in light of remote access and online classrooms, which has become a norm in most universities, are there any export/access restrictions for students working online outside North America?
1- Limitations for software download (e.g. Quartus) from their home country. Is there a list of countries with no access?

2- For software installed on University owned equipment (VM or cloud), are there any restrictions for student/faculty connecting to them from outside North America? If so, which countries are prohibited?

I am sure this question affects many universities, so we will appreciate your clarification.

best wishes,

Roozbeh Mehrabadi,

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of British Columbia

[SyafieqS · Accepted solution]

Hi Roozbeh,

1. No, everyone can access and download it.

2. No, as long as they are in the same domain/network surely there must be a bit issue with latency to access it but that is not too much the concern I would say.

But if you have any issue related to this let me know. 

Thanks,

Regards

[RMehr1]

Thank you for clarifying this. We are concerned that some vendors may limit student access to their software to comply with federal export restriction rules to some countries.

best wishes