Intrusion Detection Exchange Format (idwg)
(concluded WG)

In addition to the charter maintained by the IETF Secretariat, there is additional information about this working group on the Web at: Additional IDWG Web Page

Description of Working Group

Security incidents are becoming more common and more serious, and
intrusion detection systems are becoming of increasing commercial
importance. Numerous intrusion detection systems are important in the
market and different sites will select different vendors. Since
incidents are often distributed over multiple sites, it is likely that
different aspects of a single incident will be visible to different
systems. Thus it would be advantageous for diverse intrusion
detection systems to be able to share data on attacks in progress.

The purpose of the Intrusion Detection Working Group is to define data
formats and exchange procedures for sharing information of interest to
intrusion detection and response systems, and to management systems
which may need to interact with them. The Intrusion Detection Working
Group will coordinate its efforts with other IETF Working Groups.

The outputs of this working group will be:

1. A requirements document, which describes the high-level functional
requirements for communication between intrusion detection systems
and requirements for communication between intrusion detection
systems and with management systems, including the rationale for
those requirements. Scenarios will be used to illustrate the
requirements.

2. A common intrusion language specification, which describes data
formats that satisfy the requirements.

3. A framework document, which identifies existing protocols best used
for communication between intrusion detection systems, and describes
how the devised data formats relate to them.

Goals and Milestones