A rundown on what I think are relevant things about SCAP's Asset Identification standard to this group: - It provides a naming scheme for the types of objects listed in section 5.3 (person, org, system, software, database, network, service, data, computing device, circuit, website) - Same section describes the following types of identifiers: - *literal identifiers* are pre-defined values that can define an asset, e.g. MAC address - *synthetic identifiers* are used when an identifier is assigned to the asset, e.g. hostname or IP address - *relationship identifiers* (!) where there is information that relates an asset to another asset I have some quibbles with the document but overall it's very good. It focuses on the IT-sphere rather than the entire IOT but with protocol extensibility it could be a good approach to identification. Discovery is still the harder problem. Attached is my diagram representing the data model used by the standard. - Scott On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Scott Shorter <sshorter@electrosoft-inc.com> wrote:

Interesting, thanks Ingo for the link. It reminds me of SCAP Asset Identification <http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistir/ir7693/NISTIR-7693.pdf>, but more extensible...

Talk to you soon. - Scott