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        RFC 3067

        Title:      TERENA'S Incident object Description and Exchange
                    Format Requirements
        Author(s):  J. Arvidsson, A. Cormack, Y. Demchenko, J. Meijer
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       February 2001
        Mailbox:    Jimmy.J.Arvidsson@telia.se,
                    Andrew.Cormack@ukerna.ac.uk, demch@terena.nl,
                    jan.meijer@surfnet.nl
        Pages:      17
        Characters: 36836
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:  None

        I-D Tag:    draft-terena-itdwg-iodef-requirements-00.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3067.txt


The purpose of the Incident Object Description and Exchange Format is
to define a common data format for the description, archiving and
exchange of information about incidents between CSIRTs (Computer
Security Incident Response Teams) (including alert, incident in
investigation, archiving, statistics, reporting, etc.).  This document
describes the high-level requirements for such a description and
exchange format, including the reasons for those requirements.
Examples are used to illustrate the requirements where necessary.

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