In this informational document the EU-project European Middleware Initiative (EMI) describes a storage accounting record
 (StAR), defined to reflect practical, financial and legal requirements of storage location, usage and space and data 
flow. The defined record might be the base for a standardized schema or an extension of an existing record like the OGF 
UR and this document is intended as information to be taken as input for incorporating storage resources into the OGF UR
.

The described definition is agreed upon and will be implemented by the storage elements within EMI