Thomas Haws wrote: > You are right that Scouting advancement records are a local concern. > The main Scouting record-keeping problems are: > > -Boy loses Scout book > -Scoutmaster or Committee changes or leaves area > -Scout shows up in area without records > > These aren't academic. And centralized storage addresses all three. > Nobody above the troop level is interested in the records, but > centralized storage relieves a burden from the family and the Troop > Committee.
A troop-specific central database also solves the first two problems. The third problem could be solved using a secure records transfer process involving a centralized database that only facilitates the transfer but does not actually have the ability to decrypt the records in transit. Shane _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
