resource object proposal

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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