Re: Finishing Off IDWG

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Erlinger" <[email protected]>
To: "intrusion detection wg" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 11:00 PM
Subject: Finishing Off IDWG


>
>
> Hi Everyone
>
> IDWG was on my list of things to do after the New Year.  Sam Hartman,
> the Security Area Director beat me to it.  Basically, the IDWG Working
> Group has been idle for over a year; IDMEF is still an Internet Draft;
> the IESG has issues with the use of both DTD and Schemas in IDMEF.
>

Thanks Mike.

I concur, all that is left in fact is to get the 'official' stuff marked up.
IU am all for that.

> Herve Debar, the primary author of IDMEF, is willing to make changes
> recommended by the IESG.  He has sent out email to the list asking
> for information about the use of IDMEF and whether a DTD or Schema
> is the better choice.  He will use the responses to drive a new
> document.

I think Schema can be normative and prefer the -15 draft.
Information Brokers, uses IDMEF as a teaching tool, so I guess "academic"
is appropriate as usage.

8<.snip.>8


> Once the Working Group is happy with the document, I would ask
> that it be published as an Experimental RFC.
>
> mike

Stellar!

-e

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