----- Original Message -----
> From: "Leland J Sr CTR DISA DD Steinke (US)" <[email protected]>
> To: "SCAP Security Guide" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2016 2:50:54 PM
> Subject: RE: VMs, containers vs. bare-metal machines in SSG
> 
> Have you considered the CPE Applicability Language (NISTIR 7698)?  It
> facilitates this without overloading CPE IDs.

Yeah, we'd use CPE applicability - a CPE name and its CPE OVAL definition.
That will get us the best compatibility with various SCAP scanners out there.

What I meant by "fake" is that docker or vm-storage are not architectures,
they are not even OSes, they don't fit well in the CPE ID schemes.

-- 
Martin Preisler
Identity Management and Platform Security | Red Hat, Inc.
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