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The scout.* hierarchy is a hierarchy for boyscouts and girlguides. It is operated by many scoutnet and scouting organisations in different countries. Other usenet newsgroups keep their names and are not under supervision of scout.*
The actual hierarchy rules for scout.* are:
| scout.admin | Hierarchy administration scout.* |
| scout.binary | File distributing hierarchies |
| scout.<country code> | Hierarchy for countries |
| scout.forum.<native language name>[.topic] | Generic chat groups |
| scout.org.<organisation> | International scouting organisation |
| scout.project.<project> | International scouting projects |
| scout.wagggs | Hierarchy for WAGGGS |
| scout.wosm | Hierarchy for WOSM |
The purpose of this hierarchy is for administrative tasks of scout.*. Following tasks should be discussed here:
This is the only place where binaries are allowed. This helps server administrators to decide if they want to subscribe binary newsgroups or not.
Only scouting related material is allowed and must be free of copyrights. Such newsgroups take a lot of ressources and if the purpose of a newsgroup is missused or overused the Control Authority and the Committee has the right to shut down immediatly the newsgroup. A better way is to post links where the appropriate files can be downloaded.
Request policy: Send a Request for Discussion to scout.admin.
This is one of the main hierarchies of scout.*. Each country can have their own sub-hierarchy. scout.* is a network of networks. Each hierarchy has full rights about their own sub-hierarchy. The Control Authority and the Committee have a veto, if something runs against the interests of this network.
The sub-hierarchy is usually maintained by a Country Coordinator (or his/her deputy). A new newsgroup can also be named with a country code even though there is no formal Country Coordinator. Then the rights lies in the Control Authority and the Committee.
For the correct country code use the ISO 3166 standard.
Request policy: Get in touch with the Committee or send a mail to scout.admin about your request.
The forum should be used as an organisation-independend way to communicate with each other. The sub-hierarchy is followed by the full native language name. To find the appropriate language use www.ethnologue.com, the world source of languages. After this it can be followed by a topic.
Request policy: Send a Request for Discussion to scout.admin.
As an alternative way of country or world scout organisation hierarchies an international scouting organisation or project can request to have their own sub-hierarchy. Each hierarchy has full rights about their own sub-hierarchy. The Control Authority and the Committee have a veto, if something runs against the interests of this network.
The sub-hierarchy is maintained by a Coordinator (or his/her deputy).
Request policy: Get in touch with the Committee or send a mail to scout.admin about your request.
| 10. Oct 2001 | Proposal |
| 10. Nov 2001 | Accepted by vote |