Skip to main content

Concise Software Identification Tags
RFC 9393

Revision differences

Document history

Date By Action
2026-05-20
(System)
Changed author "D. Waltermire": changed name from "David Waltermire" to "D. Waltermire", changed affiliation from "National Institute of Standards and Technology" to "NIST", cleared country …
Changed author "D. Waltermire": changed name from "David Waltermire" to "D. Waltermire", changed affiliation from "National Institute of Standards and Technology" to "NIST", cleared country (was "USA")
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "C. Schmidt": changed name from "Charles Schmidt" to "C. Schmidt", cleared country (was "USA")
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "J. Fitzgerald-McKay": changed name from "Jessica Fitzgerald-McKay" to "J. Fitzgerald-McKay", cleared country (was "USA")
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "H. Birkholz": changed name from "Henk Birkholz" to "H. Birkholz", cleared country (was "Germany")
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2023-06-29
(System) IANA registries were updated to include RFC9393
2023-06-28
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 9393, changed abstract to 'ISO/IEC 19770-2:2015 Software Identification (SWID) tags provide an extensible XML-based structure …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 9393, changed abstract to 'ISO/IEC 19770-2:2015 Software Identification (SWID) tags provide an extensible XML-based structure to identify and describe individual software components, patches, and installation bundles.  SWID tag representations can be too large for devices with network and storage constraints.  This document defines a concise representation of SWID tags: Concise SWID (CoSWID) tags.  CoSWID supports a set of semantics and features that are similar to those for SWID tags, as well as new semantics that allow CoSWIDs to describe additional types of information, all in a more memory-efficient format.', changed pages to 61, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2023-06-28, changed IESG state to RFC Published)
2023-06-28
(System) RFC published