| DoD ITAM Teams with GSA on Software Tagging |
| Tuesday, March 30, 2010 |
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| The Department of Defense (DoD) IT Asset Management (ITAM) team and the
General Services Administration (GSA) Federal ITAM office teamed up on March
24th, to attend a Work Group session with TagVault and industry software
vendors to discuss the new ISO/IEC 19770-2 software identification tagging
standard and the work in progress on the 19770-3 draft defining the structure
for software entitlement tags. |
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| ISO 19770-2 is an emerging specification for software tagging to identify
installed software. Data elements in ISO 19770-2 are consistent with the
Common Platform Enumerator (CPE) specification being developed by the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). CPE has origins in information
assurance and vulnerability databases. The DoD ITAM is considering the CPE as
a possible source for a standard DoD software library. TagVault.org, which is
being leveraged at the Federal level by GSA, is driving an effort to work with
vendors to populate a software library using ISO 19770-2. DoD ITAM plans to
coordinate efforts between CPE and TagVault to promote a coordinated or
unified effort.
Another standard, ISO 19770-3, is emerging for entitlements to provide common
definitions for the intellectual property rights included in a software
license (e.g., term vs. perpetual use, single vs. multi-user installation,
authorization to install on secondary portable device). The working group for
entitlements has formed, with the objective to create standards for the
intellectual property rights provided with software licenses.
The DoD ITAM team plans to work with GSA, CPE and TagVault to promote a
coordinated and unified effort in regard to software tagging and entitlement
tags. Additional information on these efforts can be obtained from Robert
Smith, Program Manager - DoD IT Asset Management, DoD CIO / Portfolio Mgmt &
Enterprise Infrastructure, who can be reached at robert.smith@osd.mil. |
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