1. Summary
The document shepherd is David Waltermire. The responsible Area Director is
Kathleen Moriarty.
The Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF) provides a Reference
class used to reference external entities (such as enumeration identifiers).
However, the method of external entity identification has been left
unstructured. This document describes a method to provide structure for
referencing external entities for the IODEF Reference class and thus updates
IODEF's ReferenceName. It defines an IANA registry that lists the identifiers
of enumeration reference types that can be referenced from the Reference class.
This is an important update to the base spec and it defines a format extension,
so Proposed Standard is suitable. The working group is quite sure that this
will be a useful Standards Track update to RFC5070.
2. Review and Consensus
This update is straightforward, and there was no difficulty coming to consensus
on all points. The document received extensive review by the MILE working group
since its first draft (published on September 1, 2012). The format of the
identifier has been discussed and revised. Consequently, the structure of IANA
registry has also been revised over time. All the discussion comments were
reflected to the current version of the draft. The draft has completed WGLC and
represents the consensus of the WG with no controversy. We believe the working
group is solidly behind this. Expert review has been requested from the AppsDir
to review the document, with a focus on the XML schema changes.
3. Intellectual Property
Each author has confirmed conformance with BCP 78/79. There are no IPR issues
so long as we can recognize.
4. Other Points
The document creates an IANA registry for identifiers to be referenced from
IODEFF's Reference class subject to expert review and specification required.