Internationalization

[johnwunder]

The addition of capabilities to STIX 2.0 to capture text in multiple languages.

Work area: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15qD9KBQcVcY4FlG9n_VGhqacaeiLlNcQ7zVEjc8I3b4

Scope

Capabilities required to capture multiple languages for content in STIX. Translatable content includes text strings (name, description) and potentially open vocabularies.

Examples

1. Content provided in a single language
2. Providing content in multiple languages at the time of creation
3. Providing a single object with different fields in different languages
4. Third-party translations (one publisher creates the original content, another publisher creates a translation).
5. Field in cyber observable is supposed to be in one language, but includes characters from another language by mistake.

Open Questions

• Approach to representing additional language content
• Approach to marking an object with several languages (granular markings)
• Approach to capturing the concept of multiple official languages

[johnwunder]

A ballot was opened to determine whether the lang field should be recommended or required, with a result of recommended. The final text needs to be written but this is essentially good to go.

[johnwunder]

Final text has been written and this is now in the STIX 2.1 drafts.