The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The Incident Object Description Exchange Format v2' (draft-ietf-mile-rfc5070-bis-25.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Managed Incident Lightweight Exchange Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Stephen Farrell and Kathleen Moriarty. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mile-rfc5070-bis/ Technical Summary The Incident Object Description Exchange Format (IODEF) defines a data representation for security incident reports and cyber indicators commonly exchanged by operational security teams for mitigation and watch and warning. This document describes an updated information model for the IODEF and provides an associated data model specified with XML Schema. This new information and data model obsoletes [RFC5070] Working Group Summary There was good consensus on the draft from the WG. The updates were managed using the datatracker ticketing system and updates were confirmed on list. Document Quality There are several implementations which are documented in an implementation report to follow. The XML expert for IODEF performed their review already and others checked the XML to UML, myself included. The internationalization was checked as well. Personnel Takeshi Takahashi is the Document Shepherd and Kathleen Moriarty is the Responsible Area Director 'The IANA Expert(s) for the registries in this document are Takeshi Takahashi and Roman Danyliw.' IANA Note Registry updates require expert review per RFC5226.