NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 7693, Specification for Asset Identification 1.1. Asset identification plays an important role in an organization´s ability to quickly correlate different sets of information about assets. NISTIR 7693 provides the necessary constructs to uniquely identify assets based on known identifiers and/or known information about the assets. The Asset Identification specification includes a data model, methods for identifying assets, and guidelines on how to use asset identification. It also discusses a number of use cases for asset identification.
Draft NISTIR 7696, Common Platform Enumeration : Name Matching Specification Version 2.3 The two new reports (2nd draft) propose specifications as part of CPE version 2.3. Draft NIST IR 7695 defines the CPE naming specification, including the logical structure of well-formed CPE names and the procedures for binding and unbinding these names with machine-readable encodings. Draft NIST IR 7696 provides the CPE matching specification, which defines procedures for comparing CPE names to determine whether they refer to some or all of the same products or platforms.
