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Index of Subjects Hi Mark! On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Mark Rushton wrote: > The Board directed at Tuesday evening's meeting that the office > revert to registering new organizational websites using the "old" > IPDB. > > I was involved in a discussion this evening to look at the logistics > of doing so, in such a way as not to have a huge impact on the > expectations of those who have heard of the "new" method that's been > in place for the past couple of months. Excellent! > Specifically, we wanted to (a) keep the IPDB involved, while (b) > providing the ease-of-FTP functionality that the "new" system > provided. Excellent! > We also wanted to do this in a way that will not adversely affect the > revisions being made to IPDB. Excellent! > This is the process we have determined. Tech-types in particular > please read through this and answer the questions posed so we can > move quickly to adopting this interim process. > > Essentially, we are creating records in both the IPDB and NAMEDB for > each organization. This fulfils the old IPDB requirement that a CCN- > user be the website editor. > > We have two options: Create identically-named entries in both > databases (i.e. "NSCUBA" in IPDB and "NSCUBA" in NameDB) which would > (??) make the eventual reunion of the NameDB and revised IPDB easier > (?), or the NameDB entry could be "NSCUBA-webmaster" to > differentiate but still create a relationship that is obvious. > > TECH: WHICH OF THESE TWO OPTIONS IS PREFERRED, AND IS THERE ANY > CRITICAL PROBLEM TO PREVENT THIS METHOD? > > This also reinstates the location of the new organization within the > information tree structure (i.e., under "Community Support" or > "Environment", etc. > > The process: > > 1. An organization wishes to host their website on CCN. They contact > the office and submit the *new* (board-approved) "neighbourhood > account" agreement, which is the only one in force. > > 2. The office undertakes the steps that IPs in the past had to perform, namely: > - enters the information in the online IP registration form > - creates a new user via the online registration form, using > the same name as the IP. (i.e., if NSCUBA is the new IP coming > aboard, then NSCUBA is entered as a new user also) > > 3. The IPDB will notify the EIC that a new record has been added. > (CORRECT? IS THIS AUTOMATED?) If the information is added via the public front end which begins with: Linkname: Online IP Application Form URL: file://localhost/csuite/info/Services/IPsupport/IPOnlineApplication.html Then at the end of the process notification is sent to ip-admin (a subset of ccn-ip, I believe) of the new IP's registration. If you create the IP from within the IPDB itself, then no such notification is sent out. > 4. The IPDB record is updated to reflect TRAINED, even though we do not > require this for the new organizational websites. > (IS THIS NECESSARY TO CONTINUE? CAN OFFICE DO IT? OR > ONLY BOB ADAMS?) It *is* necessary to continue, however, anyone with HTTP authorized access can do this, office, IP people, editors, training, etc. > 5. The Office deletes the PUBLIC_HTML directory from the "user" > account associated with the IPDB account (to clarify the FTP > destination directory, which is accessible via the "00ip" directory > in the NameDB user directory) > > 6. The Office notifies the organization and its selected webmaster > that the account is active and ready for files to be FTP'd. The > Office notifies the org. and webmaster of the FTP path to be used, to > avoid confusion. > > NOTE that this provides for the organization to have a WebMail > account, accessible via CCN's homepage, which was not a feature of > the "new" process. > > NOTE that this is only intended as an INTERIM solution until the IPDB > is revised, and we have a clearer, better-functioning process. > > Unless there are CRITICAL reasons for not going ahead with this, we > would appreciate only constructive criticism ;-) For my perspective, go for it! > I have made every effort to make this summary accurate; there may be > mistakes, and as they are revealed to me I will send them on. NOTE > that we are on a TIGHT timeline to get this going, and continue the > process of rebuilding our online content. > > Thank-you, and goodnight. Thanks for the time and constructive thoughts of everyone involved. Cheers, Chris _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. Christopher Majka <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca> Editor: Culture & Philosophy - Chebucto Community Net, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Culture.html "Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved." -- Andre Malraux, 1957 _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._.
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