home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- European Board of IRC Coordinators - Norway
-
- Email: op-no@nvg.unit.no
- Versjon: 1.01-001
- Dokument: IRCNO-ORRO 06.07.93 - 03:51
- File: flode.nvg.unit.no:/pub/irc/ircno/english
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- IRCNO in English.
-
- IRCNO is the Norwegian name for EBIC - Norway.
-
- Introduction
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- The purpose of IRCNO is to make IRC in Norway as effective as
- possible. To achieve this, it has to seperate components, an
- administrative and a techincal.
-
- The administrative component enforces compliance with the IRC rules in
- Norway. The purpose of the rules is not to make operators net-police,
- but action must nonetheless be taken when rules are not complied with.
- Furthermore, we create national statistics on servers and users
- connection time. (This info is however only available to the operators).
- We also document IRC in Norway, and keep information files updated.
- Finally, we give heavy user-support. All documentation, information
- files, and user-support files are in the Norwegian language.
- The technical component consist mainly of ensuring the proper and
- reliable functioning of Norwegian servers and links, so that IRC in
- Norway is compatible with the rest of the EBIC IRC Net.
-
- IRCNO also has its own email adress for any inquiries: op-no@nvg.unit.no
-
- IRCNO has official support from the Norwegian academic network provider
- - UNINETT.
-
-
- IRCNO tasks
- ~~~~~~~~~~
- Here is a list that defines IRCNO's tasks.
-
- 1) Take care of the Norwegian IRC servers.
- 2) Enforce the rules for IRC use in Norway.
- 3) Be responsible toward UNINETT.
- 4) Make statistics.
- 5) Document IRC in Norway.
- 6) User support.
-
-
- Rules of IRC use in Norway
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- We have 3 kinds of rules, user-bot, operator and server-admin.
- Here is a short translation of the rules
-
- USER-RULES - The following is not allowed:
- 1) Fake userids, or trying to hide the real user-id.
- 2) Being intentionally offensive to another user.
- 3) Dumping a lot of text to a public channel.
- 4) Constant beeping on a channel.
- 5) Anything that will reduce the techincal functionality of IRC.
- 6) Harrasement defined by Norwegian Civil Law.
- 7) Using offencive words in channel topics on public channels.
- 8) Destroys the integrity of information.
- 9) Compromise private communication.
-
-
- BOT-RULES - The following guidelines must be followed:
- 1) Bots must not have fake userid unless given permission.
- 2) Bots must not send a message to a user not activating it.
- 3) Bots must be invisible unless they perform a good "irc-deed".
- 4) Bots must only answer to PRIVMSG by using NOTICE.
-
- Dispensation from some of the bot-rules may be given under certain
- circumstances.
-
-
- OPERATOR RULES
- This guide gives guidelines on what is not good and what is good.
-
- Stuff that is not allowed:
- - Using SQUIT / CONNECT to gain channel-operator-status.
- - Mindless use of KILL.
- - Using TRACE to find invisible users.
-
- Stuff that is allowed:
- - Using SQUIT / CONNECT to "fix" the net. This is normally not
- allowed and should be used with care. The IRCNO tries to make
- efficient use of automatic routing.
- - KILL should only be used when a user ask to be killed. KILL can
- also be used if it's based in a certain paragraph of the USER
- rule file.
-
-
- SERVER RULES
- Following is the EBIC-Rules conserning linking. For domestic
- linking we have our own rules.
-
- 1) To get a server connect to the Norwegian IRC-net:
- a. New servers must only be leafs.
- b. New servers must have one primary- and one secondary link.
- c. New servers should only have one active link at a time.
- d. The new server must have enough users.
- 2) New server connections should be discussed among the existing oper/admins.
- 3) Any link should follow the physical net-topology.
- 4) A server that is not close to a regional UNINETT net center should not
- perform as a HUB server.
- 5) Every server in Norway takes part in the national user-staistic.
- 6) If hostmasking is to be used, every server behind a mask must be able
- to connect to the up-host.
-
-
- ADMIN RULES
- 1) An irc-admin must be available by email, unless he/she notifies IRCNO
- about any longer planned absence.
- 2) A server-admin's duty is to have his/her server perform well for
- the end-users and other servers on the irc-net.
- 3) An irc-admin must upgrade his/her server and tune it according to
- something suitable as soon as a server-release is known to be
- relatively stable.
- 4) An irc-admin that is not following these rules can loose his/her links
- if 100% of IRCNO agrees.
-
-
-
- Persons in IRCNO
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- We do not have any leader or jobs, but we do preform certain tasks.
- Every decision is taken by discussion and voting. We do not have any
- problem with this, and no nasty disagreements occur. This we belive
- is because of our Norwegian Nature :-)
- Who is Who is documentet in the file called irc-no. Norwegian titles
- in paranthesis.
-
- IRCNO secretary (IRCNO sekret{r)
- Keeps track and system of all docs that are produced within IRCNO.
- The updating of the various documents is left to the one who has
- the administrative job with the document.
-
- Filearchive (Filarkiv)
- Keeps the anonymous FTP archie at flode.nvg.unit.no up-to date.
- The archive is also accessible by FSP. The archive consist of
- IRCNO docs, IRC docs in general, and IRC software.
- This person also administrate the two mailinglists that exist (IRCNO
- and a IRC-user list)
-
- Statistics: (Statistikk)
- Does the monthly stats of IRC-use in Norway.
-
- EBIC contact (EBIC kontakt)
- This task is defined in the EBIC-rules.
-
- Link master (Link ansvarlig)
- Job is to find the best links for Norwegian servers, and how they
- should connect to each other. In link-matters this person often
- has the last word. The link master write a link-report from time
- to time (found on the archive as "links"). This report is the only
- english document beside this one. This person must have good
- knowlege on net-structure in Norway and how the server-linking works.
-
- UNINETT contact (UNINETT kontakt)
- UNINETT want one contact person. This person will likely aslo be
- known as the one who is "responsible for IRC in Norway".
-
-
- Other stuff
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- For a list of servers and their associated persons, see the file irc-no
- under "servere in IRCNO".
-
- This document is proof-read by Espen Anneling (anneling@uiowa.edu)
-
-