Re: [cti] Documents

["Barnum, Sean D." <sbarnum@mitre.org>]

Allan, I would like to point out a concern I have with the way you characterize things below.

We are not talking about “versions” of a single body of content.

We are talking about completely different bodies of content. 

Are their interrelationships between them? Yes.

Are they all the same thing? No.

Are there clear reasons why they should be different things? Yes.

Are there other bodies of content that will want to relate with one or two but not all three of these bodies of content? Yes.

Characterizing this issue as a versioning issue is, I believe, inaccurate and misleading.

I do not think that was your intent but I believe that it could be the result from some reading your post.

sean

From: <cti@lists.oasis-open.org> on behalf of Allan Thomson <athomson@lgscout.com>
Date: Monday, March 7, 2016 at 1:45 PM
To: "Jordan, Bret" <bret.jordan@BLUECOAT.COM>
Cc: "cti@lists.oasis-open.org" <cti@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: Re: [cti] Documents

Having a single version of the content is preferred from my perspective.

You can still have normative text that describes each module separately.

But having ONE version to track for the related content is preferred.

allan

On Mar 7, 2016, at 9:14 AM, Jordan, Bret <bret.jordan@BLUECOAT.COM> wrote:

Right now, we have three documents for STIX & CybOX, aka CTI.  We have:

CTI Common 1.0

STIX 2.0

CybOX 3.0

I would like to challenge this design.  It seems like we are opening ourselves to document versioning and compliance / interoperability nightmares. 

1) Does it really make sense, other than for historical reasons, to keep these documents separate?  

2) If they were merged, then could not things like MAEC and other standards (that are NOT part of OASIS) just reference the sections that were of interest to them?

Thanks,

Bret

Bret Jordan CISSP

Director of Security Architecture and Standards | Office of the CTO

Blue Coat Systems

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