It's part of the 1.2 spec: <http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-v1.2.html#resources>
On the subject of spec changes, I was wondering what people thought of changing the dynamic_config option to become static_config or static_metadata.
It seems silly that the default is 1, and thus the only time you need to provide information is when you say
dynamic_config(0); Adam K