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Hi all, Tonight was IP Committee night. For those who were unable to attend... sorry you missed all the fun. Several discussions took place, one of which triggered this e-mail thread. From within the IP Committee community we would like to solicit your ideas, suggestions, objections, approval of the concept of merging CCN Information Providers with the general membership. Based on the results of the discussion, a proposal will be presented to the board for consideration. Some background. Individuals who join CCN go through a procedure to obtain an account. Various forms are completed, an account is set up, and the new member proceeds to use CCN services. Depending upon the fee paid, the individual is classified as assisted, individual, supporting, sustaining, family, family supporting or family sustaining. Resources and services assigned to the account are based on classification. For IPs, there are additional steps in the procedure. Besides the need of an editor account (as above), additional forms, and a training/certification procedure were required to be completed. In the past, these additional steps were deemed necessary so that web page installs, updates could be performed competently by the IP editor from the text browser. Additional resources (web space) etc. were assigned to the IP organization, dependent upon the fee paid. With the advent of FTP service, web page updates can be performed, in most cases, without the need to know the nuances of the text environment. Which begs the question - 'why is an IP member required to follow a projected sign up procedure?'. Could IPs be viewed as other class(es) of member (business, organization)? If the proposition that membership should be expanded to include an organization level and a business level, then the procedure for joining CCN could be streamlined into one procedure, with the appropriate fees and services. The question for discussion is: - should the IP stream and the general membership stream be merged? Please reply in the IP Merge thread. Clarification, or correction to the brief description of the process is invited, particularly where it can be shown that the merging of the streams may be untenable. Doug McCann Chair, IP Committee --------------------------------------------------------------- This mail was sent through the Nova Scotia Provincial Server. http://nsaccess.ns.ca/mail/ (in development)
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