Chapter 3. Standards

3.1. Introduction

9. This purpose of this chapter is to specify the NISP near term standards. The document organises these standards into five service areas and included service categories:

  • Operational Mission/Activities/Tasks

  • User Information Services

  • Technical Services

    • COI Services

      • Generic COI Services

      • Specific COI Services

    • Information Integration

      • Core Enterprise Services

        • Discovery

          • Service Discovery Services

          • Information Discovery Services

        • Repository

          • Metadata Registry Services

          • Enterprise Directory Services

        • Mediation

          • Composition Services

          • Translation Services

        • Interaction

          • Messaging Services

          • Publish/Subscribe Services

          • Transaction Services

          • Collaboration Services

        • Infrastructure

          • Application Services

          • Storage Services

    • Communication Services

      • Network and Transport Services

      • Data Link and Connection Services

  • Information Assurance

    • SMI Services

    • Confidentiality

    • Encryption

    • Integrity

    • Authentication

    • Detection

    • Transsec

  • Service Management and Control

10. This section describes the role and requirements of each service area, and presents all associated standards in tabular form. The tables refine each service area into one or more service categories, with service components mapping to one or more mandatory, emerging near term or fading categories (see NISP vol. 1). A remarks column provides optional supplementary information on each standard plus CCEB-specific information.

3.1.1. Releasability Statement

11. In principle, NISP includes only standards/STANAGs/documents, which are generally available for NATO/Nato member nations/CCEB.

12. However, a subset of documents are only available for those nations/ organisations, who are joining a specific mission (e.g. ISAF) or are member of a special working group (I-ICWG). The membership in these activities is outside the scope of NISP.