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Guidelines for Defining Extensions to IODEF
draft-ietf-mile-template-03.txt
Abstract
This document provides guidelines for extensions to IODEF [RFC5070]
for exchange of incident management data, and contains a template for
Internet-Drafts describing those extensions, in order to ease the
work and improve the quality of extension descriptions.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Applicability of Extensions to IODEF . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Selecting a Mechanism for IODEF Extension . . . . . . . . . . 4
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
6. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Appendix A. Document Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
A.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
A.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
A.3. Applicability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
A.4. Extension Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
A.4.1. IODEF Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
A.5. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
A.6. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
A.7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
A.8. Appendix A: XML Schema Definition for Extension . . . . . 10
A.9. Appendix B: Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Appendix B. Example Enumerated Type Extension Definition:
E.164 Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Appendix C. Example Element Definition: Test . . . . . . . . . . 11
Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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1. Introduction
In the five years since the specification of IODEF [RFC5070], the
threat environment has evolved, as has the practice of cooperative
network defense. These trends, along with experience gained through
implementation and deployment, have indicated the need to extend
IODEF. This document provides guidelines for defining these
extensions. It starts by describing the applicability of IODEF
extensions, and the IODEF extension mechanisms, before providing a
section Appendix A that is itself designed to be copied out and
filled in as the starting point of an Internet-Draft about an IODEF
extension.
2. Applicability of Extensions to IODEF
Before deciding to extend IODEF, the first step is to determine
whether an IODEF extension is a good fit for a given problem. There
are two sides to this question:
1. Does the problem involve the reporting or sharing of information
about an incident? "Incident" is not defined in the terminology
for IODEF, but for purposes of IODEF can be loosely described as
"something that happened that has some impact on the information
security situation of an entity", with quite a bit of leeway for
interpretation. If the answer to this question is unequivocally
"No", then IODEF is probably not a good choice as a base
technology for the application area.
2. Can IODEF adequately represent information about the incident
without extension? IODEF has a rich set of incident-relevant
classes. If, after detailed examination of the problem area and
the IODEF specification, the answer to this question is "Yes",
then extension is not necessary.
A non-exhaustive list of good candidate extensions to IODEF includes:
o Leveraging existing work in describing aspects of incidents to
make IODEF more expressive, by standardized reference to external
information bases about incidents and incident-related information
o Allowing the description of new types of entities (e.g., related
actors) or new types of characteristics of entities (e.g.,
information related to financial services) involved in an IODEF
incident report
o Allowing additional semantic or metadata labeling of IODEF
Documents (e.g., for handling or disposition instructions, or
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compliance with data protection and data retention regulations)
3. Selecting a Mechanism for IODEF Extension
IODEF was designed to be extended through any combination of:
1. extending the enumerated values of Attributes, as per section 5.1
of [RFC5070];
2. class extension through AdditionalData and RecordItem elements,
as per section 5.2 of [RFC5070]; and/or
3. containment of the IODEF-Document element within an external XML
Document, itself containing extension data.
Note that in this final case, the extension will not be directly
interoperable with IODEF implementations, and must "unwrap" the IODEF
document from its container; nevertheless, this may be appropriate
for certain use cases involving integration of IODEF within external
schemas. Extensions using containment of an IODEF-Document are not
further treated in this document, though the document template in
Appendix A may be of some use in defining them.
Certain attributes containing enumerated values within certain IODEF
elements may be extended. For an attribute named "foo", this is
achieved by giving the value of "foo" as "ext-value", and adding a
new attribute named "ext-foo" containing the extended value. The
attributes which can be extended this way are limited to the
following, denoted in 'Element@attribute' format, referencing the
section in which they are defined in [RFC5070]:
Incident@purpose, section 3.2
AdditionalData@dtype, section 3.6
Contact@role, section 3.7
Contact@type, section 3.7
RegistryHandle@registry, section 3.7.1
Impact@type, section 3.10.1
TimeImpact@metric, section 3.10.2
TimeImpact@duration, section 3.10.2
HistoryItem@action, section 3.11.1
Expectation@action, section 3.13
System@category, section 3.15
Counter@type, section 3.16.1
Counter@duration, section 3.16.1
Address@category, section 3.16.2
NodeRole@category, section 3.16.3
RecordPattern@type>, section 3.19.2
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RecordPattern@offsetunit, section 3.19.2
RecordItem@dtype, section 3.19.3
An example definition of an attribute extension is given in
Appendix B.
IODEF documents can contain extended scalar or XML data using an
AdditionalData element or a RecordItem element. Scalar data
extensions must set the "dtype" attribute of the containing element
to the data type to reference one of the IODEF data types as
enumerated in Appendix A.4.1, and should use the "meaning" and
"formatid" attributes to explain the content of the element.
XML extensions within an AdditionalData or RecordItem element use a
dtype of "xml", and should define a schema for the topmost containing
element within the AdditionalData or RecordItem element. An example
definition of an element definition is given in Appendix C.
4. Security Considerations
This document defines a template for extensions to IODEF; the
security considerations for IODEF [RFC5070] apply.
5. IANA Considerations
This document contains no considerations for IANA.
6. Acknowledgments
Thanks to David Black, Takeshi Takahashi, Tom Millar, and Kathleen
Moriarty for their comments. This work is materially supported by
the European Union Seventh Framework Program under grant agreement
257315 (DEMONS).
7. References
7.1. Normative References
[RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688,
January 2004.
[RFC5070] Danyliw, R., Meijer, J., and Y. Demchenko, "The Incident
Object Description Exchange Format", RFC 5070,
December 2007.
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[RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226,
May 2008.
[I-D.ietf-mile-rfc6045-bis]
Moriarty, K., "Real-time Inter-network Defense (RID)",
draft-ietf-mile-rfc6045-bis-11 (work in progress),
January 2012.
7.2. Informative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC3986] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, "Uniform
Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax", STD 66,
RFC 3986, January 2005.
[RFC5322] Resnick, P., Ed., "Internet Message Format", RFC 5322,
October 2008.
[RFC3339] Klyne, G., Ed. and C. Newman, "Date and Time on the
Internet: Timestamps", RFC 3339, July 2002.
[RFC3552] Rescorla, E. and B. Korver, "Guidelines for Writing RFC
Text on Security Considerations", BCP 72, RFC 3552,
July 2003.
[RFC4519] Sciberras, A., "Lightweight Directory Access Protocol
(LDAP): Schema for User Applications", RFC 4519,
June 2006.
[RFC6116] Bradner, S., Conroy, L., and K. Fujiwara, "The E.164 to
Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI) Dynamic Delegation
Discovery System (DDDS) Application (ENUM)", RFC 6116,
March 2011.
Appendix A. Document Template
The document template given in this section is provided as a starting
point for writing an Internet-Draft describing an IODEF extension.
A.1. Introduction
The introduction section introduces the problem being solved by the
extension, and motivates the development and deployment of the
extension.
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A.2. Terminology
The terminology section introduces and defines terms specific to the
document. Terminology from [RFC5070] or [I-D.ietf-mile-rfc6045-bis]
should be referenced in this section, but not redefined or copied.
If [RFC2119] terms are used in the document, this should be noted in
the terminology section.
A.3. Applicability
The applicability section defines the use cases to which the
extension is applicable, and details any requirements analysis done
during the development of the extension. The primary goal of this
section is to allow readers to see if an extension is indeed intended
to solve a given problem. This should also define and restrict the
scope of the extension, as appropriate, by pointing out any non-
obvious situations to which it is not intended to apply.
In addition to defining the applicability, this section may also
present example situations, which should then be detailed in the
examples section, below.
A.4. Extension Definition
This section defines the extension.
Extensions to enumerated types are defined in one subsection for each
attribute to be extended, enumerating the new values with an
explanation of the meaning of each new value. An example enumeration
extension is shown in Appendix B, below.
Element extensions are defined in one subsection for each element, in
top-down order, from the element contained within AdditionalData or
RecordItem; an example element extension is shown in Appendix C,
below. Each element should be described by a UML diagram as in
Figure 1, followed by a description of each of the attributes, and a
short description of each of the child elements. Child elements
should then be defined in a subsequent subsection, if not already
defined in the IODEF document itself, or in another referenced IODEF
extension document.
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+---------------------+
| Element |
+---------------------+
| TYPE attribute0 |<>----------[ChildExactlyOne]
| TYPE attribute1 |<>--{0..1}--[ChildZeroOrOne]
| |<>--{0..*}--[ChildZeroOrMore]
| |<>--{1..*}--[ChildOneOrMore]
+---------------------+
Figure 1: Example UML Element Diagram
Elements containing child elements should indicate the multiplicity
of those child elements, as shown in the figure above. Allowable
TYPEs are discussed in the following subsection.
A.4.1. IODEF Data Types
The allowable TYPEs for attributes within IODEF are enumerated in
section 2 of [RFC5070], and consist of:
o INTEGER
o REAL
o CHARACTER
o STRING
o BYTE for bytes or byte vectors in Base 64 encoding
o HEXBIN for bytes in ascii-hexadecimal encoding
o ENUM for enumerated types; allowable values of the enumeration
must be defined in the attribute definition
o DATETIME for [RFC3339]-encoded timestamps
o TIMEZONE for timezones as described in section 2.9 of [RFC5070].
o PORTLIST for port lists as described in section 2.10 of [RFC5070].
o POSTAL for postal addresses as described in section 2.23 of
[RFC4519].
o NAME for names of natural or legal persons as defined in section
2.3 of [RFC4519].
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o PHONE for telephone numbers as defined in section 2.35 of
[RFC4519].
o EMAIL for email addresses as defined in section 3.4.1. of
[RFC5322].
o URL for URIs as in [RFC3986].
In addition to these simple data types, IODEF provides a compound
data type for representing network address information. Addresses
included within an extension element should be represented by
containing an IODEF:Address element, which supports IPv4 and IPv6
addresses, as well as MAC, ATM, and BGP autonomous system numbers.
Application-layer addresses should be represented with the URL simple
attribute type, instead.
A.5. Security Considerations
[SECDIR and RFC-EDITOR NOTE: Despite the title, this section is NOT a
Security Considerations section, rather a template Security
Considerations section for future extension documents to be built
from this template. See Section 4 for Security Considerations for
this document.]
Any security considerations [RFC3552] raised by this extension or its
deployment should be detailed in this section. Guidance should focus
on ensuring the users of this extension do so in a secure fashion,
with special attention to non-obvious implications of the
transmission of the information represented by this extension.
It should also be noted in this section that the security
considerations for IODEF [RFC5070] apply to the extension as well.
A.6. IANA Considerations
[IANA and RFC-EDITOR NOTE: Despite the title, this section is NOT an
IANA Considerations section, rather a template IANA Considerations
section for future extension documents to be built from this
template. See Section 5 for IANA Considerations for this document.]
Any IANA considerations [RFC5226] for the document should be detailed
in this section; if none, the section should exist and contain the
text "this document has no actions for IANA".
IODEF Extensions which represent an enumeration should reference an
existing IANA registry or subregistry for the values of that
enumeration. If no such registry exists, this section should define
a new registry to hold the enumeration's values, and define the
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policies by which additions may be made to the registry.
IODEF Extensions adding elements to the AdditionalData section of an
IODEF document should register their own namespaces and schemas for
extensions with IANA; therefore, this section should contain at least
a registration request for the namespace and the schema, as follows,
modified as appropriate for the extension:
Registration request for the IODEF My-Extension namespace:
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iodef-myextension-1.0
Registrant Contact: Refer here to the authors' addresses section of
the document, or to an organizational contact in the case of an
extension supported by an external organization.
XML: None
Registration request for the IODEF My-Extension XML schema:
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:iodef-myextension-1.0
Registrant Contact: Refer here to the authors' addresses section of
the document, or to an organizational contact in the case of an
extension supported by an external organization.
XML: Refer here to the XML Schema in Appendix A of the document, or
to a well-known external reference in the case of an extension with
an externally-defined schema.
A.7. References
This section lists RFCs, internet-drafts and other documents
referenced from the extension, split into normative and informative
references.
A.8. Appendix A: XML Schema Definition for Extension
The XML Schema describing the elements defined in the Extension
Defintion section is given here. Each of the examples in section
Appendix A.9 should be verified to validate against this schema by
automated tools.
A.9. Appendix B: Examples
This section contains example IODEF-Documents illustrating the
extension. If example situations are outlined in the applicability
section, documents for those examples should be provided in the same
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order as in the applicability section. Example documents should be
tested to validate against the schema given in the appendix.
Appendix B. Example Enumerated Type Extension Definition: E.164 Address
This example extends the IODEF Address element to support the
encoding of ENUM-mapped telephone numbers [RFC6116].
Attribute: Address@category
Extended value(s): enum-e164
Value meaning and format: An E.164 telephone number encoded as a
domain name in the e164.int space, e.g.
"2.1.2.1.5.5.5.2.1.2.1.e164.int." for +1 212 555 1212, as per section
3.2 of [RFC6116].
Additional considerations: none.
Appendix C. Example Element Definition: Test
This example defines the Test class for labeling IODEF test data.
The Test class is intended to be included within an AdditionalData
element in an IODEF Document. If a Test element is present, it
indicates that an IODEF Document contains test data, not a reference
to a real incident.
The Test class contains information about how the test data was
generated.
+---------------------+
| Test |
+---------------------+
| ENUM category |
| STRING generator |
| |
| |
+---------------------+
Figure 2: The Test class
The Test class has two attributes:
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category: Required. ENUM. The type of test data. The permitted
values for this attribute are shown below. The default value is
"unspecified".
1. unspecified. The document contains test data, but no further
information is available.
2. internal. The test data is intended for the internal use of
an implementor, and should not be distributed or used outside
the context in which it was generated.
3. unit. The test data is intended for unit testing of an
implementation, and may be included with the implementation to
support this as part of the build and deployment process.
4. interoperability. The test data is intended for
interoperability testing of an implementation, and may be
freely shared to support this purpose.
generator: Optional. STRING. A free-form string identifying the
person, entity, or program which generated the test data.
Author's Address
Brian Trammell
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Gloriastrasse 35
8092 Zurich
Switzerland
Phone: +41 44 632 70 13
Email: trammell@tik.ee.ethz.ch
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