[LOPSA-Standards-Project] Getting things moving

[Doug Hughes]

Here's the basic project idea:

> This project is about content categorization. The idea is to develop
> categories to arrange standards content relating to system and network
> administration. Think IETF, IEEE, EIA/TIA, RFCs, etc, all categoried so
> that somebody can browse the hierarchies and find standards related to
> mail, standards related to cabling, standards related to name
> resolution, etc.
 >
> The keys are coming up with useful standard taxonomies (perhaps more
> than one with multiple relationships if necessary) and then populating
> and linking the standards.
> 
> A form entry may be the easiest way to do this. Form may include
> things like (first pass, to be defined) standard name, standards body,
> brief description, date published, keywords, and link to full
> authoritative source.


strawman:

Name: RFC1305
Description: Network Time Protocol (Version 3)
Author: David L. Mills
Date: March 1992
Supercedes: RFC-1119, RFC-1059, RFC-958
Body: IETF
Keywords: NTP, peer, dispersion, UDP, stratum, time
Source: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1305.txt?number=1305
Summary: "This document describes the Network Time Protocol (NTP), 
specifies its
formal structure and summarizes information useful for its
implementation. NTP provides the mechanisms to synchronize time and
coordinate time distribution in a large, diverse internet operating at
rates from mundane to lightwave. It uses a returnable-time design in
which a distributed subnet of time servers operating in a self-
organizing, hierarchical-master-slave configuration synchronizes local
clocks within the subnet and to national time standards via wire or
radio. The servers can also redistribute reference time via local
routing algorithms and time daemons." - RFC1305 abstract

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Name: TIA/EIA-568-B
Description: Twisted pair cabling standards
Author: EIA/TIA
Date: 2001
Supercedes: EIA/TIA-568A
Body: EIA/TIA
Keywords: twisted pair, fiber, MCC, ICC, HCC, category 5, category 6, 
RJ45UTP
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TIA-568B
Summary:
TIA/EIA-568-B is a set of standards best known for pairs of color coded 
cables for network wiring in residential and commercial applications. 
The first version of the standard was developed by more than 60 
organizations in 1985. This set of standards governs distance, 
connectors, electrical characteristics, testing and more for a variety 
of different cable types.

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Ok, so, that's the basic idea. by adding proper categories for standards 
it should be easily browseable and searchable across a variety of 
different standards bodies and even a place to put our own standards and 
best practices.

So, what more/less?
What sorts of categories?

Networking
  protocols
Physical
  wiring (also under Networking)
  power
  data center
Systems
  bus connects (e.g. SCSI, SATA)
  Disk
   RAID
  CPU
...