Re: [cti-stix] Labels on STIX TLOs

I don't like the labels field myself. I would prefer the addition of a genetic tag TLO. The community does prefer the labels field however, and so...

I would make the label field optional, and leave it applied just to the objects we can make a case for. I would worry about using it everywhere, as that will restrict us in the future if we decide to make it more specific to each object. Having one list across all objects would worry me that we are restricting our choices later on.

On 30/06/2016 01:24, "Wunder, John A." <jwunder@mitre.org> wrote:

All,

One of the topics that came up across several items on the call yesterday was the “labels” field that currently exists on Indicator, Malware, and Tool. The field is an array of values from an open vocabulary (indicator-label-ov, malware-label-ov, and tool-label-ov respectively).

We have a couple of open questions:

1.       Should the labels field be required or optional?

a.       If we make labels required, do we need to add a value of “other” to the vocabulary? This will help tools/users who can’t find an existing value in the vocabulary that works but don’t want to make one up.

2.       Which TLOs need the labels field? It’s on Indicator, Malware, and Tool now but has not been added to Campaign or Attack Pattern.

a.       Allan has suggested adding it across all top-level objects. Does that make sense, or should we consider it on a case-by-case basis?

b.       Allan also suggested that if we don’t add it across all top-level objects, it should be added to Campaign. Are there other TLOs that we should add it to, even if we don’t add it across all of them?

To be honest I don’t really have a strong opinion either way. What do you think?

John

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