Open Question to the CTI Community

[Patrick Maroney <Pmaroney@Specere.org>]

Caveat: Please do not infer any negative connotations in the folllowing.  I no doubt have my views on the matter***, but do not assert anything here other than the suggestion that we really should sort out these fundamentally different perspectives out and get consensus.

There seem to be two distinct camps of thought:

(1) CybOX is  'just a language', STIX is an "Envelope/Box" that can be used to address/package letters, poetry, written, books, magazines, produced in this language, and TAXII is the means to deliver said packages (e.g. Postal Service, FedEx, etc.)

(2) All of these combined somehow form an information repository (how things are racked, stacked, and found in the warehouse) and TAXII is the "Amazon".

These are somewhat flawed analogies, but hopefully my point is clear.

So is TAXII the just Transport?....or the Warehouse, Transport, and Order Processing system?

Patrick Maroney
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*** I do have a strongly held bias that externally facing/exposed TAXII Gateways should only hold ephemeral data as long as is required to reliably "ship the package".