Re: IDS> NAP binding spec new draft

From: Randy Turner (rturner@amalfisystems.com)
Date: Mon Feb 02 2009 - 13:46:17 EST

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    Hi Brian,

    I think what you're really proposing is that there would be an "IDS
    mapping document" and not a NAP document. This one document would be
    single
    reference for implementers. Does this sound right?

    Randy

    On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Brian Smithson wrote:

    > Regarding the new NAP draft:
    >
    > I tried to remove information that was already specified in other
    > specs (MS-SOH and HCD-ATR) but unless I am mistaken, it was not as
    > straightforward as we may have thought it might be. Nine of the
    > attributes are described in other specs, so they fit nicely into the
    > tabular format that was suggested back in October's meeting.
    > However, the other eleven needed to be described in the NAP spec and
    > for those I referred to subsequent sections for the details. Looking
    > at the overall result, I'm wondering if this has made the NAP spec
    > less usable for implementers. Some of the necessary information is
    > in the NAP spec itself, some of it needs to be retrieved from one of
    > two other documents, and some of it needs to be retrieved from yet
    > another document (PA-TNC) that is referenced by one of the
    > referenced documents (HCD-ATR).
    >
    > Maybe it would be better to fully specify things in the NAP spec? I
    > realize that this will place the same information in two documents
    > and risking that they lose sync with one another, but ultimately I
    > think we want a binding spec to be implementer-friendly.
    >
    > Let's discuss on Thursday's call...
    > --
    > Regards,
    > Brian Smithson
    > PM, Security Research
    > PMP, CISSP, CISA, ISO 27000 PA
    > Advanced Imaging and Network Technologies
    > Ricoh Americas Corporation
    > (408)346-4435
    >
    >
    > Nevo, Ron wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >> New NAP binding spec. updated by Brian is now posted.
    >>
    >> ftp://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ids/wd/wd-ids-napsoh10-20090130_ncb.pdf
    >>
    >>
    >> Regards
    >>
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