The Incident Object Description Exchange Format Version 2
RFC 7970
| Document | Type | RFC - Proposed Standard (November 2016; Errata) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Author | Roman Danyliw | ||
| Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
| Stream | IETF | ||
| Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized with errata bibtex | ||
| Reviews | |||
| Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
| Document shepherd | Takeshi Takahashi | ||
| Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2016-04-21) | ||
| IESG | IESG state | RFC 7970 (Proposed Standard) | |
| Action Holders |
(None)
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| Consensus Boilerplate | Yes | ||
| Telechat date | |||
| Responsible AD | Kathleen Moriarty | ||
| Send notices to | rdd@cert.org, mile-chairs@tools.ietf.org, mile@ietf.org | ||
| IANA | IANA review state | Version Changed - Review Needed | |
| IANA action state | RFC-Ed-Ack | ||
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) R. Danyliw
Request for Comments: 7970 CERT
Obsoletes: 5070, 6685 November 2016
Category: Standards Track
ISSN: 2070-1721
The Incident Object Description Exchange Format Version 2
Abstract
The Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF) defines a
data representation for security incident reports and indicators
commonly exchanged by operational security teams for mitigation and
watch and warning. This document describes an updated information
model for the IODEF and provides an associated data model specified
with the XML schema. This new information and data model obsoletes
RFCs 5070 and 6685.
Status of This Memo
This is an Internet Standards Track document.
This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has
received public review and has been approved for publication by the
Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on
Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 7841.
Information about the current status of this document, any errata,
and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7970.
Danyliw Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 7970 IODEF Version 2 November 2016
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RFC 7970 IODEF Version 2 November 2016
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2. Notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.3. About the IODEF Data Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.4. Changes from RFC 5070 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2. IODEF Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1. Integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2. Real Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.3. Characters and Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.4. Multilingual Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.5. Binary Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.5.1. Base64 Bytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.5.2. Hexadecimal Bytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.6. Enumerated Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.7. Date-Time String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.8. Timezone String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.9. Port Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.10. Postal Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.11. Telephone Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.12. Email String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.13. Uniform Resource Locator Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.14. Identifiers and Identifier References . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.15. Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.15.1. SoftwareReference Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.16. Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3. The IODEF Information Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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