Re: [cti] Items Ready for TC Wide Final Review

[Alexandre Dulaunoy <Alexandre.Dulaunoy@circl.lu>]

On 25/04/2019 22:12, Bret Jordan wrote:
> All,
> 
> 
> The following sections are ready for TC final review.  Some of these are in different Google Documents so I have included direct links for you.  Please have all suggestions and changes in the
> documents by end-of-day Friday May 10th (2 weeks from today):
> 
> 
> Introduction and Overview: Section 1.6 - 1.8
> 
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ShNq4c3e1CkfANmD9O--mdZ5H0O_GLnjN28a_yrEaco/edit#heading=h.klv9fmnhjhrc

Thank you for the work.

But the UUID description is still not solving the issue already mentioned in https://github.com/oasis-tcs/cti-stix2/issues/133.

The current proposal in the draft:

"All identifiers, excluding those used in the deprecated cyber observable container, MUST follow the form object-type--UUID, where object-type is the exact value (all type names are lowercase strings,
by definition) from the type property of the object being identified or referenced and where the UUID is either an RFC 4122-compliant Version 4 UUID or Version 5 UUID. The UUID portion MUST be
generated according to the algorithm(s) defined in RFC 4122, section 4.4 (Version 4 UUID) or section 4.3 (Version 5 UUID) [RFC4122]."

Could this be updated in the following way:

"All identifiers, excluding those used in the deprecated cyber observable container, MUST follow the form object-type--UUID, where object-type is the exact value (all type names are lowercase strings,
by definition) from the type property of the object being identified or referenced and where the UUID is either an RFC 4122-compliant UUID. The UUID portion MUST be generated according to the
algorithm(s) defined in RFC 4122, section 4 [RFC4122]."

We have an ongoing fork for the CTI STIX2 implementation and this change could solve a host of issues reported by several vendors / implementers that we are in contact with.

Could we count on the TC for ensuring this is passing in STIX 2.1? Because this is a major blocker and I would be very disappointed to keep having to maintain our fork of the STIX 2 libraries,
especially considering the rather steep effort required to keep it in line.

Thank you very much.

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