As we decided at the last RIPE meeting, I republish the proposal of
a resource object to be added to the RIPE DB structure and optionally
implemented by national registries. I made almost no modifications to
my previous proposal (just added audio and videocasting channel). I hope
this publication will sollicitate some preliminary discussion on e-mail
before the upcomming RIPE meeting.
Thanks for comments
and see you in Prague
Milan Sterba
Description of the "resource" RIPE database object
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resname: Resource name in human
Mandatory
admin-c: Name of administrative contact person
Format : <firstname> <initials> <lastname>
Mandatory
tech-c: Name of the technical contact person
Format : <firstname> <initials> <lastname>
Mandatory
restype: Type of the resource
Describes in one word the nature of the resource
(the list of the most common should be agreed
upon at RIPE)
Format : one of the strings listed bellow
meta = server of servers
library = library catalogue
docs = document store
database = structured data base
local = local information system
(e.g. university information system)
archive = specific data objects archive
(e.g. public domain software)
super = supercomputer facility
channel = audio or videocasting station
Mandatory
acc-method: Access protocol to the service
This should be the name of the IP [CLNP]
service which allows to access the server
Format: sequence of bellow listed strings
separated by space
telnet | ftp | ftam | wais | gopher | www |
e-mail | prospero | archie | vat ...
Mandatory
acc-key: Access info necessary to access the first
level service
(e.g. login name for public telnet sessions or
port number and database name for wais servers)
Format: depends on the access protocol
acc-right: Access rights to the resource
Format : sequence of strings bellow separated
by space
ANY | see connect attribute in network object |
LIMITED
Mandatory
topics: Keyword description of the topics covered
by the resource
Each topic should be mentioned in a new
topic attribute.
e.g. economy, mollecular biology,
computer networks, software
Mandatory
description: Short description of the resource
Postal address is not needed, it can
be found via the contacts
host: List of hosts for this resource
Format: fully qualified domainname
without trailing "."
Mandatory
media: Type of data stored on the server
Format: sequence of strings bellow
separated by space
ascii = ascii texts
text = other textual data
(e.g. in native language or various
text processing formats - PostScript)
struct = record oriented data
graphics = graphical data (images)
sound = self explanatory
video = dtto
binaries = computer programs in binary form
sources = computer program sources
etc.
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