If you back up one directory in the URL, you will notice that it says "Standards and Guidelines for Internet Publishing
and Maintaining Local Council Web Sites". This is what the guidance pertains to, Council i.e."official" BSA web pages, not Troop level webpages. Troop level websites are addressed at http://www.scouting.org/webmasters/standards/02.html
It says
Unit Sites. It is not recommended that councils acknowledge "official" sites for units. There are currently tens of thousands of unit Web sites on the Internet, and it would be difficult for a council to allocate sufficient resources to monitor all the various sites developed by units in its area. Furthermore, since most units lack adequate resources to develop respectable and safe Web sites, a vast majority of unit sites are wrought with safety and liability issues that could become problems for the council were the sites endorsed as officially representative.....
The safest course of action would be for the council to remain completely uninvolved in and, inasmuch as possible, unaware of any Internet publication produced by any group or individual not authorized to serve as a representative of the council or the Boy Scouts of America in the online medium.
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If you back up one directory in the URL, you will notice that it says "Standards and Guidelines for Internet Publishing
and Maintaining Local Council Web Sites". This is what the guidance pertains to, Council i.e."official" BSA web pages, not Troop level webpages. Troop level websites are addressed at http://www.scouting.org/webmasters/standards/02.html
It says
Unit Sites. It is not recommended that councils acknowledge "official" sites for units. There are currently tens of thousands of unit Web sites on the Internet, and it would be difficult for a council to allocate sufficient resources to monitor all the various sites developed by units in its area. Furthermore, since most units lack adequate resources to develop respectable and safe Web sites, a vast majority of unit sites are wrought with safety and liability issues that could become problems for the council were the sites endorsed as officially representative.....
The safest course of action would be for the council to remain completely uninvolved in and, inasmuch as possible, unaware of any Internet publication produced by any group or individual not authorized to serve as a representative of the council or the Boy Scouts of America in the online medium.