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Add Support for Timestamp-based versioning to CybOX entities (those with id/idref attributes) #342

Open bgro opened 9 years ago

bgro commented 9 years ago

The bulk of versioning in STIX is carried out using the timestamp attribute. Unfortunately, this mechanism cannot be used for CybOX, because CybOX entities do not carry the timestamp attribute (except the "Action" entity (and maybe some other ones), where timestamp is used for denoting the time of observation rather than the revision of the CybOX entity).

Versioning using timestamps in STIX works well but currently cannot be applied consistently over a complete STIX document, because the bulk of such documents belongs to the CybOX domain. Therefore,

ikiril01 commented 9 years ago

Updated title slightly for clarity.

athiasjerome commented 9 years ago

+1 needed (consider Pri-Medium)