Proposed normative text available for Report object refactoring - (Goal: Reach official consensus by Monday)

Refactoring of the Report object based on our breaking out of relationships is one of the issues that we seem to have general consensus on but have not yet agreed to normative text.

Proposed normative text is now available for your review in the

STIX 2.0 Specification Pre-draft document.

It is fairly straightforward and should not take long to consider.

Please review the normative text and add comments to the document for any concerns, questions or ideas you may have.

If we do not see any significant concerns/objections to the normative text by Monday we will consider this issues to have officially achieved consensus and move on to others.

For the quick convenience of anyone having difficulty accessing the live specification pre-draft document the relevant text is included below.

Report Object

The Report Object is a mechanism for relating a collection of STIX TLOs together according to some shared context.  

Inherited Fields

The Indicator object would inherit the

CTI Core Properties and the 
CTI Descriptive Properties.

Proposed Fields

Property
 Name

Type

Description

intents
 (required)

array
 of type report-intent-type

Specifies the intended purposes or uses
of this Report.

intents_ext
(optional)

array
 of type vocab-ext

Specifies alternate intended purposes or uses
of this Report.

Example
(using only created_by_ref for brevity)

{

 "type": "package",

 "id": "package--44af6c39-c09b-49c5-9de2-394224b04982",

 "sources":

   {

     "type": "identity",

     "id": "identity--a463ffb3-1bd9-4d94-b02d-74e4f1658283",

     "name": "Symantec",

   }

 ],

  "reports": [

   {

     "type": "report",   

     "id": "report--84e4d88f-44ea-4bcd-bbf3-b2c1c320bcbd",

     "created_at": "2015-12-21T19:59:11.000000+00:00",

     "title": "The Black Vine Cyberespionage Group",

     "description": "A simple report with an indicator, campaign and a relationship
 between them",

     "intents": ["Threat Report"],

     "created_by_ref": "identity--a463ffb3-1bd9-4d94-b02d-74e4f1658283"

   }

 ],

 "indicators": [

   {

     "type": "indicator",

     "id": "indicator--26ffb872-1dd9-446e-b6f5-d58527e5b5d2",

     "created_at": "2015-12-21T19:59:17.000000+00:00",

     "title": "Some indicator",

     "indicator_types": ["IP Watchlist"],

     "created_by_ref": "identity--a463ffb3-1bd9-4d94-b02d-74e4f1658283"

   }  

 ],

 "campaigns": [

   {

     "type": "campaign",

     "id": "campaign--83422c77-904c-4dc1-aff5-5c38f3a2c55c",

     "created_at": "2015-12-21T19:59:17.000000+00:00",

     "title": "Some Campaign",

     "created_by_ref": "identity--a463ffb3-1bd9-4d94-b02d-74e4f1658283"

   }

 ],

 "relationships": [

   {

     "type": "relationship",

     "id": "relationship--f82356ae-fe6c-437c-9c24-6b64314ae68a",

     "created_at": "2015-12-21T19:59:17.000000+00:00",

     "from": "report--84e4d88f-44ea-4bcd-bbf3-b2c1c320bcbd",

     "to": "indicator--26ffb872-1dd9-446e-b6f5-d58527e5b5d2",

     "relationship_nature": "Report Contains",

     "created_by_ref": "identity--a463ffb3-1bd9-4d94-b02d-74e4f1658283"

   },

   {

     "type": "relationship",   

     "id": "relationship--72f666b6-f1db-4b2c-82e3-71ab49a84be1",

     "created_at": "2015-12-21T19:59:17.000000+00:00",

     "from": "report--84e4d88f-44ea-4bcd-bbf3-b2c1c320bcbd",

     "to": "campaign--83422c77-904c-4dc1-aff5-5c38f3a2c55c",

     "relationship_nature": "Report Contains",

     "created_by_ref": "identity--a463ffb3-1bd9-4d94-b02d-74e4f1658283"

   },

   

   {

     "type": "relationship",

     "id": "relationship--f82356ae-fe6c-437c-9c24-6b64314ae68a",

     "created_at": "2015-12-21T19:59:17.000000+00:00",

     "from": "indicator--26ffb872-1dd9-446e-b6f5-d58527e5b5d2",

     "to": "campaign--26ffb872-1dd9-446e-b6f5-d58527e5b5d2",

     "relationship_nature": "Related Campaign",

     "created_by_ref": "identity--a463ffb3-1bd9-4d94-b02d-74e4f1658283"

   },

   

   {

     "type": "relationship",

     "id": "relationship--a05d8c6a-ccea-4a0a-a8e0-68dfe85fbfa9",

     "created_at":"2015-12-21T19:59:17.000000+00:00",

     "from": "report--84e4d88f-44ea-4bcd-bbf3-b2c1c320bcbd",

     "to": "relationship--f82356ae-fe6c-437c-9c24-6b64314ae68a",

     "relationship_nature": "Report Contains",

     "created_by_ref": "identity--a463ffb3-1bd9-4d94-b02d-74e4f1658283"

   },

 ]

}