PROPOSED FRAMEWORK ________________________________ Location for "Remailer Description" (actual remailer) -the Help File (obtainable through remailer-help standard query Location for "Remailer Description" (not an actual remailer e.g TURING aka CC) -(some dedicated webpage, in .txt format -possibly with a standard name ( /RemailerDescription.txt ) ________________________________ Section delimination the relevant section could be delimited with: -----BEGIN REMAILER DESCRIPTION -----END REMAILER DESCRIPTION and contain one line per keyword ________________________________ Keyword line I initially thought of a line looking like a record from a comma-delimited file But, because the whole section is immerged in a non-machine-readable file, there is no inconvenient to a more unix-like structure: $RemailerDescription{"RemailerName"}{"WebSiteOccurrence"}{"Keyword"}="Value"; With RemailerName is the Remailer's name (e.g. "Frog", "CC", "Farout"...) WebSite Occurrence is a Number/String (generally "0", but might be "1", "2" ... in case of mirrored WebSites) Keyword is the name of the data whose value follows (e.g. "Keyring_RSA_asc" or "Keyring_RSA+DSS_pgp") Value is a value (or a list of values, blank-separated) relevant with the keyword (e.g. "http://www.privacyresources.org/frogadmin/Keys/pgpkeys.asc") ________________________________ Example Frog saying: "I offer an ascii-armored version of PGP keyrings, with RSA-only keys and the preferred location to find it is on my mirror website http://www.privacyresources.org/frogadmin/Keys/pgpkeys.asc but you can also have it by mail or finger from home and there is a binary version" would spell: -----BEGIN REMAILER DESCRIPTION $RemailerDescription{"Frog"}{"0"}{"Keyring_RSA_asc"}="http://www.privacyresources.org/frogadmin/Keys/pgpkeys.asc"; $RemailerDescription{"Frog"}{"2"}{"Keyring_RSA_asc"}="mailto:pgpkeys@frogadmin.yi.org"; $RemailerDescription{"Frog"}{"2"}{"Keyring_RSA_asc"}="finger:pgpkeys@frogadmin.yi.org"; $RemailerDescription{"Frog"}{"0"}{"Keyring_RSA_pgp"}="http://www.privacyresources.org/frogadmin/Keys/pgpkeys.pgp"; -----END REMAILER DESCRIPTION