Re: [Unity-irc3] Banning from the entire network, part two

[David Westley]

Small suggestion... use current real-world entities for examples, like...

Undernet, DALnet, EFNet, Quakenet and IRCnet are all groups (I hope)
Servers that join one of those nets would become part of one of those groups 
yes?

Slap me if I'm going off in completely the wrong direction :)

David

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Krueger <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 19:12:23 +0200
Subject: [Unity-irc3] Banning from the entire network, part two

> Hi everyone,
> I've had a look at the mechanisms for globally banning people in Hybrid-7.
> It's a lot like what I suggested earlier:
> 
> - Opers can do a temp kline which is a timed local ban
> - Opers can do a remote temp kline on a specific remote server if they are
>   allowed to
> - If three opers /gline exactly the same host across the network, a global
> ban
>   of a hard-coded duration will be set.
> 
> 
> With the idea of a central blacklist server we can do quite the same, or even
> something better:
> The blacklist server maintains a list of bans, be it local or remote ones. It
> also maintains a list of groups of servers. Every server is free to start a
> new group, gaining moderation privileges for that specific group.
> Now, other servers can join this group and the initial founder of the group
> can optionally assign privileges to them. Some of these privileges may even
> be
> assigned to a specific oper on a server.
> 
> Now a group is basically a unit of trust - all members of a group trust the
> other members to a certain extent. Some of the group members have the right
> to
> add bans to the group. If a new ban is added, every server in the group gets
> notified about that. It's up to each server to decide whether it accepts the
> ban - I'd suggest criteria like the group access level of the oper/server who
> added the ban, how many people added this ban (yes, this obviously requires
> some kind of counter) or even local configuration options to always allow
> bans/kills from certain servers/opers regardless of their access level. And
> perhaps others, but this would be the most important.
> There might even be a local configuration option to have local opers confirm
> remote bans/kills before they happen, for the more paranoid staff. ;)
> 
> Note that a server is not limited to a single group, however if it's in
> several groups, I'm unsure yet whether it should pass on bans from one group
> to another. I think it should. To be evaluated.
> 
> The advantage is that we don't limit the possibility for server admins to
> decide what's going on - they can join whatever group they want, therefore
> being able to choose between different flavours of global banning. They can
> even decide to not join any group at all if they want Anet style.
> 
> List of suggested privileges for group members:
> 
> - add ban (different levels of power however, to give more freedom to server
>   admins/opers to decide what bans to accept)
> - remove ban (again, different levels of power)
> - add short-timed emergency ban (only available to *very* trusted
>   servers/opers... of course, this will make abuse easier but it might be
>   helpful). The duration of those bans should get hardcoded into the
> blacklist
>   server.
> - Remote kill (different levels of power, you could have guessed :))
> 
> I hope I've made myself clear here. Suggestions, comments?
> 
> -- 
> regards,
> Jan Krüger
> http://www.jast-dev.net.tc
>