Guidelines for Extensions to IODEF for Managed Incident Lightweight Exchange
draft-trammell-mile-template-01.txt

Abstract

This document provides guidelines for extensions to IODEF [RFC5070] for lightweight exchange of incident management data, and contains a template for Internet-Drafts describing those extensions, in order to ease the work and improve the quality of extension descriptions.

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Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Applicability of Extensions to IODEF
• 3. Selecting a Mechanism for IODEF Extension
• 4. Document Template
• 4.1. Introduction
• 4.2. Terminology
• 4.3. Applicability
• 4.4. Extension Definition
• 4.4.1. IODEF Data Types
• 4.4.2. Example Enumerated Type Extension Definition: E.164 Address
• 4.4.3. Example Element Definition: Test
• 4.5. Examples
• 4.6. Security Considerations
• 4.7. IANA Considerations
• 4.8. Appendix: XML Schema Definition for Extension
• 5. Security Considerations
• 6. IANA Considerations
• 7. References
• 7.1. Normative References
• 7.2. Informative References
• Author's Address

1. Introduction

Since the specification of IODEF [RFC5070], the evolution of the threat environment and the practice of cooperative network defense, along with continued implementation and deployment, has indicated the need for guidelines for the implementation and extension of IODEF. This document provides these guidelines. It starts by describing the applicability of IODEF extensions, and the IODEF extension mechanisms, before providing a section Section 4 that is itself designed to be copied out and filled in as the starting point of an Internet-Draft about an IODEF extension.

2. Applicability of Extensions to IODEF

Before deciding to extend IODEF, the first step is to determine whether an IODEF extension is a good fit for a given problem. There are two sides to this question:

A non-exhaustive list of good candidate extensions to IODEF includes:

3. Selecting a Mechanism for IODEF Extension

IODEF was designed to be extended through any combination of:

Note that in this final case, the extension will not be directly interoperable with IODEF implementations, and must "unwrap" the IODEF document from its container; nevertheless, this may be appropriate for certain use cases involving integration with IODEF within external schemas. Extensions using containment of an IODEF-Document are not further treated in this document, though the document template in Section 4 may be of some use in defining them.

Certain attributes containing enumerated values within certain IODEF elements may be extended. For an attribute named "foo", this is achieved by giving the value of "foo" as "ext-value", and adding a new attribute named "ext-foo" containing the extended value. The attributes which can be extended in this way are defined in [RFC5070], and limited to only these:

An example definition of an attribute extension is given in Section 4.4.2.

IODEF documents can contain extended scalar or XML data using an AdditionalData element or a RecordItem element. Scalar data extensions MUST set the "dtype" attribute of the containing element to the data type to reference one of the IODEF data types as enumerated in Section 4.4.1, and SHOULD define the use the "meaning" and "formatid" attributes to explain the content of the element.

XML extensions within an AdditionalData or RecordItem element use a dtype of "xml", and SHOULD define a schema for the root element within the AdditionalData or RecordItem attribute. An example definition of an element definition is given in Section 4.4.3.

4. Document Template

Documents describing an IODEF extension should follow the document template given in this section.

4.1. Introduction

The introduction section introduces the problem being solved by the extension, and motivates the development and deployment of the extension.

4.2. Terminology

The terminology section introduces and defines terms specific to the document. Terminology from [RFC5070] or [RFC6045] should be referenced in this section, but not redefined or copied. If [RFC2119] terms are used in the document, this should be noted in the terminology section.

4.3. Applicability

The applicability section defines the use cases to which the extension is applicable, and details any requirements analysis done during the development of the extension. The primary goal of this section is to allow readers to see if an extension is indeed intended to solve a particular problem. This should also the scope of the extension, as appropriate, by pointing out any non-obvious situations to which it is not intended to apply.

In addition to defining the applicability, this section may also present example situations, which should then be detailed in the examples section, below.

4.4. Extension Definition

This section defines the extension.

Extensions to enumerated types are defined in one subsection for each attribute to be extended, enumerating the new values with an explanation of the meaning of the new value. An example enumeration extension is shown in Section 4.4.2, below.

Element extensions are defined in one subsection for each element, in top-down order, from the element contained within AdditionalData or RecordItem; an example element extension is shown in Section 4.4.3, below. Each element should be described by a UML diagram as in Figure 1, followed by a description of each of the attributes, and a short description of each of the child elements. Child elements should then be defined in a subsequent subsection, if not already defined in the IODEF document itself, or in another referenced MILE extension document.

+---------------------+
| Element             |
+---------------------+
| TYPE attribute0     |<>----------[ChildExactlyOne]
| TYPE attribute1     |<>--{0..1}--[ChildZeroOrOne]
|                     |<>--{0..*}--[ChildZeroOrMore]
|                     |<>--{1..*}--[ChildOneOrMore]
+---------------------+

Elements containing child elements should indicate the multiplicity of those child elements, as shown in the figure above. Allowable TYPEs are discussed in the following subsection.

4.4.1. IODEF Data Types

The allowable TYPEs for attributes within IODEF are enumerated in section 2 of [RFC5070], and consist of:

In addition to these simple data types, IODEF provides a compound data type for representing network address information. Addresses included within an extension element should be represented by containing an IODEF:Address element, which supports IPv4 and [RFC2373] IPv6 addresses, as well as MAC, ATM, and BGP autonomous system numbers. Application-layer addresses should be represented with the URL simple attribute type, instead.

4.4.2. Example Enumerated Type Extension Definition: E.164 Address

This example extends the IODEF Address element to support the encoding of ENUM-mapped telephone numbers [RFC6116].

Attribute: Address@category

Extended value(s): enum-e164

Content format: An E.164 telephone number encoded as a domain name in the e164.int space, e.g. "2.1.2.1.5.5.5.2.1.2.1.e164.int." for +1 212 555 1212, as per section 3.2 of [RFC6116].

Additional considerations: none.

4.4.3. Example Element Definition: Test

This example defines the Test class for labeling IODEF test data.

The Test class is intended to be included within an AdditionalData element in an IODEF Document. If a Test element is present, it indicates that an IODEF Document contains test data, not a reference to a real incident.

The Test class contains information about how the test data was generated.

+---------------------+
| Test                |
+---------------------+
| ENUM category       |
| STRING generator    |
|                     |
|                     |
+---------------------+

The Test class has two attributes:

4.5. Examples

This section contains example IODEF-Documents illustrating the extension. If example situations are outlined in the applicability section, documents for those examples should be provided in the same order as in the applicability section. Example documents should be tested to validate against the schema given in the appendix.

4.6. Security Considerations

[SECDIR and RFC-EDITOR NOTE: Despite the title, this section is NOT a Security Considerations section, rather a template Security Considerations section for future extension documents to be built from this template. See Section 5 for Security Considerations for this document.]

Any security considerations [RFC3552] raised by this extension or its deployment should be detailed in this section. Guidance should focus on ensuring the users of this extension do so in a secure fashion, with special attention to non-obvious implications of the transmission or storage of the information represented by an extension.

4.7. IANA Considerations

[IANA and RFC-EDITOR NOTE: Despite the title, this section is NOT an IANA Considerations section, rather a template IANA Considerations section for future extension documents to be built from this template. See Section 6 for IANA Considerations for this document.]

Any IANA considerations [RFC5226] for the document should be detailed in this section; if none, the section should exist and contain the text "this document has no actions for IANA".

IODEF Extensions adding elements to the AdditionalData section of an IODEF document should register their own namespaces and schemas for extensions with IANA; therefore, this section should contain at least a registration request for the namespace and the schema, as follows, modified as appropriate for the extension:

Registration request for the IODEF My-Extension namespace:

URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:iodef-myextension-1.0

Registrant Contact: Refer here to the authors' addresses section of the document, or to an organizational contact in the case of an extension supported by an external organization.

XML: None

Registration request for the IODEF My-Extension XML schema:

URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:schema:iodef-myextension-1.0

Registrant Contact: Refer here to the authors' addresses section of the document, or to an organizational contact in the case of an extension supported by an external organization.

XML: Refer here to the XML Schema in the appendix of the document, or to a well-known external reference in the case of an extension with an externally-defined schema.

4.8. Appendix: XML Schema Definition for Extension

The XML Schema describing the elements defined in the Extension Defintion section is given here. Each of the examples in section Section 4.5 should be verified to validate against this schema by automated tools.

5. Security Considerations

This document defines a template for MILE extensions to the IODEF and RID documents; as such, it has no security considerations on its own.

6. IANA Considerations

This document has no actions for IANA.

7. References

7.1. Normative References

7.2. Informative References

Author's Address