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- Rules for IRC networking - Ratified July 6th 1994 for use and operation
- within Europe.
-
- 1.) The establishment of new servers and intra-domain linking should
- be a local toplevel domain (IE: country) decision.
-
- Guidelines:
-
- + Only a link for ONE server should be given to the new
- server site, that means the new site shouldn't be able to
- connect test-servers to other than its own server.
- (This avoids confusion about linking hierachy).
-
- + If a toplevel domain hostmask link is given, ensure that all
- hubs of that domain have connect access to the masked server
- (this should avoid disagreements between hub admins within a
- domain).
-
- 2.) Hacked or cracked servers (and the machines they run on) are the
- concern of all Admins, and override all local interests.
-
- Guidelines:
-
- + In a server with non-standard source code which breaks
- the current irc protocol (especially the incorrect
- manipulation of channel modes and user/hostname authen-
- tication) Admins will take action, this includes the
- testing of these patches.
-
- + The recommended action is permanent withdrawl of the
- server from the IRC-net by removal from all its uplinks
- configuration files.
-
- 3.) The Admins are responsible for all operator access.
- IRC Administrators should therefore be approved by the
- machine and network admins for the site in question.
-
- 4.) Operator power may be used only on server and network
- maintenance purposes. KILL may be used only when other
- methods to fix a problem don't exist.
-
- Infringement of the rules as outlined above should lead to
- operator and/or admin changes on the offending server.
- Responsibility for these changes is primarily that of the uplink
- server administrators.
-
- In the event of continued transgression, further action may be
- taken by remote IRC Administrators 24 hours after the problem
- has been identified and all responsible parties have been
- notified.
-
- All intended additions to this document must be announced to IRC
- Administrators for at least one week prior to ratification.
-
- --
- Edited June 29th by #EU-Opers
-
- Edited December 3rd by Darren Reed
-