The cause of the creation of this conceptual row. It could be one of the three methods: (1) user configured, including via management protocol set operations, configuration file, command line, or equivalent methods; (2) learned from the partner DLSw Capabilities Exchange messages; and (3) dynamic, e.g., learned from ICanReach messages, or test frames. Since only actual NetBIOS names can be dynamically learned, dynamic entries will not contain any char or wildcard characters.

The public versus private distinction for user- configured resources applies only to local resources (UC remote resources are private), and indicates whether that resource should be advertised in capabilities exchange messages sent by this node.