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IC Technical Specifications
Trusted Data Format - Base
Overview
This XML Data Encoding Specification for Trusted Data Format - Base (BASE-TDF.XML) defines detailed implementation guidance for using Extensible Markup Language (XML) to encode BASE- TDF data. This specification defines the XML elements and attributes, associated structures and relationships, mandatory and cardinality requirements, and permissible values for representing BASE-TDF data concepts using XML.
BASE-TDF.XML is the top-level specification from which all other Trusted Data Format (TDF) specifications are generated. TDF specifications, such as XML Data Encoding Specification for Trusted Data Format (IC-TDF.XML), inherit only those capabilities that are needed to fulfill its requirements. Child TDF instances will always validate against the parent BASE-TDF.XML schema, however, BASE-TDF.XML instances are not guaranteed to validate against child TDF schemas.
The IC Chief Information Officer maintains this specification via the Data Standards Coordination Activity (DSCA) and Common Metadata Standards Tiger Team (CMSTT).
Technical Specification Downloads
Latest Approved Public Release:
- XML Data Encoding Specification for Trusted Data Format - Base (V2021-NOV - Standalone Package)
- XML Data Encoding Specification for Trusted Data Format - Base (V2021-NOV - Convenience Package)
- XML Data Encoding Specification for Trusted Data Format - Base (V2021-NOV - Light Package)
Mission Requirements
Information sharing within the national intelligence enterprise will increasingly rely on information assurance metadata (including enterprise data headers) to allow interagency access control, automated exchanges, and appropriate protection of shared intelligence. A structured, verifiable representation of security metadata bound to the intelligence data is required for the enterprise to become inherently "smarter" about the information flowing in and around it. Such a representation, when implemented with other data formats, improved user interfaces, and data processing utilities, can provide part of a larger, robust information assurance infrastructure capable of automating some of the management and exchange decisions today being performed by human beings.
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IC Technical Specifications
Cross Domain System Manifest TDF
Overview
This XML Data Encoding Specification for Cross Domain System Manifest TDF (CDSM-TDF.XML) defines detailed implementation guidance for using XML to encode CDSM-TDF data. This specification defines the XML elements and attributes, associated structures and relationships, mandatory and cardinality requirements, and permissible values for representing CDSM-TDF data assertion concepts using XML within the use of a Trusted Data Format (TDF) Object. It is a profile of XML Data Encoding Specification for Trusted Data Format (IC-TDF.XML) that is suitable for use by commercial entities in an unclassified Uncaveated environment while maintaining the ability to become a full IC-TDF.XML TDF on networks that require it.
The IC Chief Information Officer maintains this specification via the Data Standards Coordination Activity (DSCA) and Common Metadata Standards Tiger Team (CMSTT).
Technical Specification Downloads
Latest Approved Public Release:
- XML Data Encoding Specification for Cross Domain System Manifest TDF (V2021-NOV - Standalone Package)
- XML Data Encoding Specification for Cross Domain System Manifest TDF (V2021-NOV - Convenience Package)
- XML Data Encoding Specification for Cross Domain System Manifest TDF (V2021-NOV - Light Package)
Mission Requirements
This specification is designed to fulfill a number of requirements in support of the transformational efforts of the Intelligence Community (IC). These requirements include:
- The need for a minimized profile of TDF for commercial entity use in unclassified uncaveated environments.
- The need to provide non-repudiation and secure cross domain transfer of things (e.g., patches) across the various domains in the enterprise.
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IC Technical Specifications
Intelligence Community Specification Framework
Overview
The Intelligence Community Specification Framework (IC-SF.XML) defines the basic conceptual structure and outlines the core philosophy of Intelligence Community (IC) technical specifications. This framework is applicable to the IC and information produced by, stored, or shared within the IC. This framework may have relevance outside the scope of intelligence; however, prior to applying outside of this defined scope, the framework should be closely scrutinized and differences separately documented and assessed for applicability.
The IC Chief Information Officer maintains this specification via the Data Standards Coordination Activity (DSCA) and Common Metadata Standards Tiger Team (CMSTT).
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Mission Requirements
Over the years, the number of IC technical specifications has grown substantially for various reasons, from addressing new enterprise needs to isolating independent concepts into separate specifications. Within these specifications, there are many aspects that are universal to all the IC specifications, or at least applicable to a particular family or format of specification. In a desire to simplify the specifications and make them easier to understand by those who are engineering and implementing enterprise exchange systems, this framework was born.
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IC Technical Specifications
DoD Discovery Metadata
Overview
This XML Data Encoding Specification for Intelligence Content Discovery and Retrieval (CDR) defines detailed implementation guidance for using result sets in service responses applicable to the IC and Department of Defense (DoD) and information produced by, stored, or shared within and between the IC and DoD. The Content Discovery and Retrieval (CDR) Search Component specifies the use of result sets in service responses. As the DoD Discovery Metadata Specification (DDMS) is the Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD) standard representation for resource metadata, and the IC Information Resource Metadata (IRM) standard is a supplement to it, providing guidance on how to search for DDMS and IRM encoded data is important. This document provides implementation guidelines for the use of DDMS and IRM in query request expressions and query responses for the CDR Search Specifications.
This is the first release of the specification and therefore provides no backward capability.
Compliance with this specification is measured against all aspects of the technical and documentary artifacts contained within the specification release package.
This specification is maintained by the IC Chief Information Officer via the Data Coordination Activity (DCA) and Content Discovery & Retrieval Integrated Project Team.
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Latest Approved Public Release:
- None
Mission Requirements
This specification is designed to fulfill a number of requirements in support of the transformational efforts of the Intelligence Community. Many of these requirements are articulated in IC Directives.
This specification includes design features capable of:
- Use of result sets in service responses.
- Provides guidance on how to search for DDMS and IRM encoded data.
- Provides implementation guidelines for the use of DDMS and IRM in query request expressions and query responses for the CDR Search Specifications.
- Defines joint vision and shared oversight between IC and DoD.
- Outlines IC/DoD CDR IPT set of architecturally-driven standards and specifications that enable content discovery and retrieval of all IC and DoD data assets.
- DoD Metadata Working Group
- CDR Reference Architecture (CDR-RA)
- Advises on how to search documents which follow the DDMS and IRM specifications.
- Uses XPath as the notational convention.
- Defines dependencies
- Defines Version and XML Namespace Policies
- Provides info on running examples written in DDMS 5.0 to make work with DDMS 4.1 examples.
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IC Technical Specifications
DigitalHazMat Commercial TDF
Overview
This XML Data Encoding Specification for DigitalHazMat Commercial TDF (DHZMC-TDF.XML) defines detailed implementation guidance for using XML to encode DHZMC-TDF data. This specification defines the XML elements and attributes, associated structures and relationships, mandatory and cardinality requirements, and permissible values for representing trusted data format data concepts using XML within the use of a Trusted Data Format (TDF) Object. It is a profile of XML Data Encoding Specification for Trusted Data Format (IC-TDF.XML) that is suitable for use by commercial entities in an unclassified uncaveated environment while maintaining the ability to become a full IC-TDF.XML TDF on networks that require it.
The IC Chief Information Officer maintains this specification via the Data Standards Coordination Activity (DSCA) and Common Metadata Standards Tiger Team (CMSTT).
Technical Specification Downloads
Latest Approved Public Release:
- XML Data Encoding Specification for DigitalHazMat Commercial TDF (V2021-NOV - Standalone Package)
- XML Data Encoding Specification for DigitalHazMat Commercial TDF (V2021-NOV - Convenience Package)
- XML Data Encoding Specification for DigitalHazMat Commercial TDF (V2021-NOV - Light Package)
Mission Requirements
This specification is designed to fulfill a number of requirements in support of the transformational efforts of the Intelligence Community (IC). These requirements include:
- The need for a minimized profile of TDF for commercial entity use in unclassified uncaveated environments.
- The need to provide non-repudiation, obfuscation, and secure cross domain transfer of digital hazmat across the various domains in the enterprise for provenance and analysis.