The Incident Object Description Exchange Format
RFC 5070
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(December 2007; Errata)
Obsoleted by RFC 7970
Updated by RFC 6685
Was draft-ietf-inch-iodef (inch WG)
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Network Working Group R. Danyliw
Request for Comments: 5070 CERT
Category: Standards Track J. Meijer
UNINETT
Y. Demchenko
University of Amsterdam
December 2007
The Incident Object Description Exchange Format
Status of This Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
The Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF) defines a
data representation that provides a framework for sharing information
commonly exchanged by Computer Security Incident Response Teams
(CSIRTs) about computer security incidents. This document describes
the information model for the IODEF and provides an associated data
model specified with XML Schema.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2. Notations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.3. About the IODEF Data Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4. About the IODEF Implementation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2. IODEF Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1. Integers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2. Real Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3. Characters and Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.4. Multilingual Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.5. Bytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.6. Hexadecimal Bytes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.7. Enumerated Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.8. Date-Time Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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2.9. Timezone String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.10. Port Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.11. Postal Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.12. Person or Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.13. Telephone and Fax Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.14. Email String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.15. Uniform Resource Locator strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3. The IODEF Data Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1. IODEF-Document Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.2. Incident Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.3. IncidentID Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.4. AlternativeID Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3.5. RelatedActivity Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
3.6. AdditionalData Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.7. Contact Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3.7.1. RegistryHandle Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.7.2. PostalAddress Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.7.3. Email Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.7.4. Telephone and Fax Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.8. Time Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
3.8.1. StartTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.8.2. EndTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.8.3. DetectTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.8.4. ReportTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.8.5. DateTime . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.9. Method Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.9.1. Reference Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.10. Assessment Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3.10.1. Impact Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3.10.2. TimeImpact Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.10.3. MonetaryImpact Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.10.4. Confidence Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3.11. History Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
3.11.1. HistoryItem Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
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