Introduction to SOAR Website Policies


The SOAR Archive and Discussion web site is intended to facilitate communication among members of the SOAR consortium. There are two categories of documents in the site. Public documents are open to everyone with a web browser. Internal (private) documents, indicated by square brackets [...] in text-mode listings and color-coding in graphics-mode listings, are accessible only by password. If you ought to have a password but do not have one, please contact the Archivist . Most private documents are accessible by any member of the consortium institutions who have a password. However, the Interim Governance Board, the SWG, and the Operations Committee each have a private area called [Committee Business] which is accessible only by members of the relevant committees.

Official committee documents may be submitted only by the chairpersons of the relevant committee, or by someone the chairpersons designate. Any consortium member may submit comments to the discussion sections.

Upon submission all documents, whether intended to be public or private, will initially be placed in a private directory. Documents which are intended to become public will be moved to a public directory only after at least 3 days have passed. This is intended to allow consortium members to comment before a document is released to the general web readership.

How to submit a document


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This file updated: 1996.12.09 (Monday) 03:48:47 EST.