Texas Administrative Code › Title 13 - CULTURAL RESOURCES › Part 1 - TEXAS STATE LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES COMMISSION › Chapter 1 - LIBRARY DEVELOPMENT › Subchapter E - GRANTS: ELECTRONIC ACCESS › Section 1.100 - Standards for Local Public Library Internet Access

Current through Reg. 49, No. 28; July 12, 2024
(a) Definitions. The following words and
				  terms, when used in this undesignated head, shall have the following meanings,
				  unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
(1) Administrative staff--Library staff whose
				  responsibilities include management or supervision.
(2) Bandwidth--The amount of data that can be
				  sent through a given communications circuit per second, generally expressed as
				  kilobits per second (Kbps).
(3)
				  Client--A computer system or process that requests a service of another
				  computer system or process (a "server") according to a specified
				  protocol.
(4) Dedicated
				  connection--A permanent, as opposed to dialup, connection between machines
				  established over a telephone line, including permanent virtual
				  circuits.
(5) Dialup connection--A
				  temporary, as opposed to dedicated, connection between machines established
				  over a telephone line using modems.
(6) Distributed system--A collection of
				  computers whose distribution is transparent to the user so that the system
				  appears as one local machine, and which usually uses a client-server
				  organization.
(7) Domain Name
				  Server or Domain Name System (DNS)--A general-purpose distributed, replicated,
				  data query service used on the Internet for translating host names into
				  Internet addresses, as specified in RFC-1034 and 1035 (DOMAIN, Domain Name
				  System) and RFC-974 (DNS-MX, Mail Routing and the Domain System) or their
				  current successor documents.
(8)
				  Domain name--The common suffix in a Fully Qualified Domain Name that a group of
				  computers share.
(9) File Transfer
				  Protocol (FTP)--A protocol for transferring files from one computer to another
				  over the Internet, as specified in RFC-959 or its current successor
				  document.
(10) Format of Electronic
				  Mail Messages (MAIL)--A format for transferring electronic mail messages from
				  one computer to another over the Internet, as specified in RFC-822 or its
				  current successor document.
(11)
				  Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)--The full name of a computer system,
				  consisting of its local host name and its domain name.
(12) Gopher--A distributed document retrieval
				  system that started at the University of Minnesota, as defined in RFC-1432 or
				  its most current successor document.
(13) Graphical User Interface (GUI)--The use
				  of pictures rather than words to represent the input and output of a computer
				  program.
(14) Host name--The unique
				  name by which a computer is known on a network, used to identify it in
				  electronic information interchange.
(15) Host--A computer (including a terminal)
				  connected to a network.
(16)
				  Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)--A hypertext document format, using Standard
				  Generalized Markup Language, used by the World Wide Web.
(17) Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)--The
				  client-server TCP/IP protocol used on the World Wide Web for the exchange of
				  HTML documents.
(18) Internet
				  address--The 32-bit host address defined by the Internet Protocol in RFC-791,
				  usually represented in dotted decimal notation.
(19) Internet Architecture Board (IAB)--A
				  technical advisory group of the Internet Society chartered by the Internet
				  Society Trustees to provide oversight of the architecture of the Internet and
				  its protocols.
(20) Internet
				  connection--A combination of hardware, software, and telecommunications
				  services that allows a computer to communicate with any other computer on the
				  worldwide network of networks known as the Internet, and that adheres to the
				  required standard protocols listed in RFC-1800 or its current successor
				  document.
(21) Internet Protocol
				  (IP)--A protocol for computer telecommunications as specified in RFC-791 or its
				  current successor document.
(22)
				  Internet provider--An organization that is authorized to provide Internet
				  connections to other organizations.
(23) Management Information Base-II
				  (MIB-II)--A specification of the managed objects to be defined in a
				  internetwork management system as specified in RFC-1213 or its current
				  successor document.
(24) Network--A
				  hardware and software computer data communication system.
(25) Protocol--A set of formal rules
				  describing how to transmit data across a network.
(26) Public service staff--Library staff
				  whose primary responsibilities include helping library users to find and use
				  information or materials; pages, shelvers, circulation and clerical staff (or
				  others whose reference or reader's advisory duties are incidental) are not
				  included.
(27) Request for Comments
				  (RFC)--A version of an Internet specification, published as part of the
				  "Request for Comments" (RFC) document series, the official publication channel
				  for Internet standards documents and other publications of the Internet
				  Engineering Steering Group, Internet Architecture Board, and Internet
				  community.
(28) Server--A computer
				  system or process that provides some service for other computers ("clients")
				  connected to it via a network, according to a specified protocol.
(29) Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)--A
				  mail transfer protocol defining an envelope to be used in delivering messages
				  between computers on the Internet, as specified in RFC-821 or its current
				  successor document.
(30) Simple
				  Network Management Protocol (SNMP)--A protocol for remote management and
				  collection of network management information as specified in RFC-1157 or its
				  current successor document.
(31)
				  Technical services staff--Library staff whose primary responsibilities include
				  selecting, cataloging, or indexing information or materials for the library
				  collection.
(32) Telnet Protocol
				  (TELNET)--A protocol that allows a user on one computer to login remotely to
				  another computer over the Internet, as specified in RFC-854 and 855 or their
				  current successor documents.
(33)
				  Text-based--Working under a non-window-based operating system, as opposed to a
				  graphical user interface.
(34)
				  Transmissions Control Protocol (TCP)--A protocol for computer
				  telecommunications as specified in RFC-793 or its current successor
				  document.
(35) Wide Area
				  Information Server (WAIS)--A distributed (client-server) information retrieval
				  system that uses a protocol defined in the American National Standards
				  Institute Z39.50.
(36) World Wide
				  Web (WWW)--An Internet client-server hypertext distributed information
				  retrieval system using HTTP that originated from the CERN High-Energy Physics
				  laboratories in Geneva, Switzerland.