Release Notes for COE Security PlatformV1.0

The COE Security Conformance test consists of a test suite called the 
HOSTS (Host-Oriented Security Test Suite), which is used for evaluating 
an implementation's compliance with the Defense Information Infrastructure 
(DII) Common Operating Environment (COE) Security Requirements Specification 
(SRS). These tests are primarily written in the PERL language v. 5 and the 
Bourne shell, and are portable to POSIX systems. The HOSTS distribution is 
organized into several sections, including the main driver program, several 
common task plugin modules, and test input files based on the five COE KPC 
security test categories.

The "Security Testing Procedures" as they are required for validating 
COE 4.2P6 security under the Open Group COE certification program can be 
found as the tog_coe-Security_Testing-v.1.0.pdf file located in the doc 
directory on the hosts-1.0.tar file. Alternatively, this document as well as 
all COE validations procedures for COE certification can be found at:

	http://www.opengroup.org/coe/protected/valprocs/v1.0/

The standard operating procedure for the HOSTS Test Suite is 
described in the document "Host-Oriented_Security_Test_Suite-sop-v1-5-0-0.pdf". 
It can be located in the doc directory on the hosts-1.0.tar file.

A detailed status of the current problems and methods of analysis has been 
discussed in detail in the "Results Interpretation within the Common Operating 
Environment Kernel Platform Certification Security Test Plan's Automated Environment". 
This document and be found in the doc director and is labeled as the 
"kpc_failure_interpretation.pdf" on the hosts-1.0.tar file.


File Structure of the PlatformV1.0 COE security directory on the
Open Group ftp site located at:

ftp://ftp.opengroup.org/pub/COE/


Directory/File				Description
===============				===========================					

./PlatformV1
	/COE-Test-Doc			Contains copy of all test doc 
					found on hosts-1.0.tar plus manual 
					test procedures.

./PlatformV1
	/Security
		/hosts-1.0.tar	  	 Tar file containing HOSTS automated test suite.
		/LICENSE.txt       	 License
		/Release_Notes.txt 	 Release Notes for COE Security PlatformV1 
					 (This file)
		



The following directories and files are contained in the hosts-1.0.tar file.

Directory			Description
===============		===============================
doc			Documentation
bin			Main program
sample_runs		Sample execution runs
solaris			Test series and plugins for Solaris


Files			Description
==================	===============================
000_README              Describes contents of hosts-1.0.tar file
000_README.XEQ          Instructions for executing HOSTS
Rel1.0			Version Number File
Release_Notes-v1.0	Release Notes for version 1.0
LICENSE                	GNU license governing HOSTS
hosts.pl               	Hard link to program under ./bin


Reporting problems and where to get support

Information about the procedures for applying for interpretations 
and waivers can be found on The Open Group's World Wide Web site, 
at the URL:

	http://www.opengroup.org/interpretations

A searchable database of existing interpretations and waivers is 
available at the URL:

	http://www.opengroup.org/interpretations/database

For more information of The Open Group COE Platform Certification 
program see:

	http://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/coe/


For more information on the COE Forum see:

	http://www.opengroup.org/coe/