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This draft is a work item of the Intrusion Detection Exchange Format Working Group of
the IETF.
Title : Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format Comparison
of SMI and XML Implementations
Author(s) : G. Mansfield, D. Curry
Filename : draft-ietf-idwg-xmlsmi-01.txt
Pages : 24
Date : 27-Sep-00
The purpose of the Intrusion Detection Message Exchange Format
(IDMEF) is to define data formats and exchange procedures for sharing
information of interest to intrusion detection and response systems,
and to the management systems which may need to interact with them.
The goals and requirements of the IDMEF are described in [2].
Two implementations of the IDMEF data format have been proposed: one
using the Structure of Management Information (SMI) to describe a
MIB, and the other using a Document Type Definition (DTD) to describe
XML documents. Both representations appear to have their good and
bad traits, and deciding between them is difficult.
To arrive at an informed decision, the working group tasked the
authors to identify and analyze the pros and cons of both approaches,
and to present the results in the form of an Internet-Draft.
The initial version of this draft was reviewed by the IDWG at the
February, 2000 interim meeting where it was tentatively decided that
the XML/DTD solution was best at fulfilling the IDWG requirements.
This decision was finalized at the March, 2000 IETF IDWG meeting.
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