ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 18180 First edition 2013-06-15 Information technology - Specification for the Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) Version 1.2 Technologies de I'information - Spécification de XCCDF (Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format) version 1.2 Reference number ISO/IEC 18180:2013(E) ISo IEC @ISO/IEC2013 ISO/IEC 18180:2013(E) COPYRIGHT PROTECTED DOCUMENT ISO/IEC 2013 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized otherwise in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, or posting on the internet or an intranet, without prior written permission. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 : CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail copyright@iso.org Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland @ ISO/IEC 2013 - All riahts reserved ISO/IEC 18180:2013(E) Foreword IsO (the International Organization for Standardization) and IEC (the International Electrotechnical Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of ISO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees and non-governmental, in liaison with iSO and IEC, also take part in the work. In the field of information technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1. International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/lEC Directives, Part 2. The main task of the joint technical committee is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards adopted by the joint technical committee are circulated to national bodies for voting. Publication as an International Standard requires approval by at least 75 % of the national bodies casting a vote. rights. ISO and TEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO/IEC 18180 was prepared by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (as NIST IR 7275) Revision 4) and was adopted, under a special “fast-track procedure", by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, in parallel with its approval by the national bodies of ISO and IEC. ii