I should rephrase as my statement was not clear, I am not sold yet on the way layer 2 markings are being proposed. But that could mean I just do yet fully understand John's vision for them. I am going to try and schedule a call with John tomorrow to walk through it.
Bret
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On Dec 3, 2015, at 8:22 PM, Struse, Richard <
> wrote:
For some context, there are significant users of STIX, especially within the public sector, that require finer-grained marking than what Level 1 markings provide. The whole point of having two levels of marking defined is to allow implementations that are not concerned with that finer-grained capability to implement just Level 1 markings. My guess is that support for Level 1 would be MTI with support for Level 2 (in addition to Level 1 of course) being optional.
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Subject: Re: [cti-stix] Applying data markings
So I really like what you have done for Level 1 markings, and I can get behind that. A few nits/comments though:
1) you have defined marking_definitions and marking_refs. I am guessing you are using an abbreviated form of references because of the legacy "idref" field. I would prefer that we adopt a general style guide for the field names.
Options to be discussed:
a) use underscores
camel casing
b) all lower case
camel casing
c) spell words out
try to use abbreviated forms when possible
My preferences:
I prefer underscores even though the JSON uses camel casing
I personally prefer all lower case
I would prefer abbreviations when possible. So marking_defs and marking_refs (this might be hotly debated by this group)
2) EclecticIQ published a great style guide for JSON STIX when they did theirs. One thing that I did not like at first, but came to love in code was their use of a "type" field. For example:
{
"type": "six_package",
"indicators": [
{
"type": "indicator",
"id": "indicator-1234"
}
]
}
It might be good to do this in your marking objects as well. Something like "type": "marking" or something. Please the attached PDF of their email to the STIX list from long ago.
3) Can you give some examples of a Level 2 marking structure that is valid? I am still not sold on the Level 2, but am willing to work with you, so you can enlighten me.
