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to an extent, i agree with megan, but not for her reasons of "Oh god won't someone please think of the children!!". Steam is the prime example of a perfect admin system. Every steam account is assigned a unique steamid that is viewable by everyone on the server with a simple command, this steamid can be added to the banned users file any time you wish, or banned ingame using the rcon.
What's best about steam is that many of the features have been enhanced by other admin mods, the most popular and best being the Mani Admin Plugin, which gives admins a simply massive array of tools, from changing teams, to speaking in a special admin text colour to banning people at the push of a button. It even has special punishment measures for those who have been naughty, but not not enough to be banned, such as slaying, slapping, burning, freezing, time-bombing, flame-bombing, freeze-bombing and gimping. Better admin tools and interfaces are a definite must for H2Vista as frankly, RCon admin access for server-side admins, or lesser admins (bear in mind rcon is total control; you might not want your admins with total control), is a thing of the past, admin UIs and tool kits are far more effective.
Aside from that, bungie have no responsibility or jurisdiction to moderate other people's server, as they're just that, other people's servers. You can't go around policing other people's property. It is purely the server owner's responsilbity to make sure his server is policed.