SACM Tasks

[henkbirkholz]

The terminology draft includes definitions of the terms "Collection Task" and "Evaluation Task". The definition of SACM Task includes definitions of "Information Collection" and "Endpoint Assessment", which originate from the requirement draft.

Are those definition about the same thing? If so, in order to be merged properly, the task names have to be homogenized and the definitions must not conflict.

[adammontville]

The list of defined tasks in the terminology draft are:

• Target Endpoint Discovery
• Target Endpoint Characterization
• Target Endpoint Classification
• Collection
• Evaluation [TBD]
• Information Sharing [TBD]
• SACM Component Discovery
• SACM Component Authentication [TBD]
• SACM Component Authorization [TBD]
• SACM Component Registration [TBD]

Assessment is defined in the terminology draft as well, as being the process of collecting and subsequent evaluation.

Does this issue still need to exist, or can we close it without taking any action?

[jarrettlu]

Henk and I had a discussion on this issue. The 'TBD' terms should actually be in the architecture draft and possibly in the information model draft. Since the WG isn't working on either draft before, and this terms are deemed important to SACM, they are put in the terminology draft for the time being, i.e. using terminology draft as a place holder. Our recommendation is to leave this issue open for now, and revisit this when the architecture draft moves forward. We may also revisit the SACM Task definition to see whether we need to distinguish Task from Activity.