Intrusion Detection Exchange Format
charter-ietf-idwg-01

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.