Added description for each field used by SightingDB

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ipr= "trust200902"
area = "Security"
date = 2019-03-03T00:00:00Z
date = 2019-11-03T00:00:00Z
[[author]]
initials="S."
@ -49,7 +49,84 @@ document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [@!RFC2119].
## Overview
The SightingDB format is in the JSON [@!RFC8259] format. In SightingDB, a Sighting Object is composed of a single JSON object.
The SightingDB format is in the JSON [@!RFC8259] format. In SightingDB, a Sighting Object is composed of a single JSON object. This object contains the following fields: value, first_seen, last_seen, count, tags, ttl, frequency and manifold.
### Attribute Storage
The fields described previously describe an Attribute and all the required characteristics. However they are stored in a Namespace. A Namespace is similar to a path in a filesystem where the same file can be stored in multiple places.
### Namespace
A Namespace with multiple levels MUST be separated with the slash '/' character. There is no specification on how they are structured, since it depends on the use cases.
A Namespace starting with the underscore '_' character means it is private and internal to SightingDB. There are all reserved for the engine and MUST NOT be used.
Reserved namespaces are:
_expired/<namespace>: Which contains all the attributes that expired, preserving the origin namespace
_shadow/<namespace>: When a value is searched and does not exists, it is stored there
_stats: Statistics
_config: Configuration
_all: All the Attributes in one place, used to retrieve the 'manifold' property.
The Attribute Key MUST always be the last part of the Namespace.
#### Sample Namespaces
/Organization1/service/ipv4: Store values for ipv4 keys in /Organization1/service
/everything/domain: Store domains in /everything
### Attribute fields
#### value
The attribute value, used to store and retrieve information about an attribute. Note that value is not returned back in the JSON object, since it is queried, it is known.
#### first_seen
Time in UTC of the first time this value was captured
#### last_seen
Time in UTC of the last time this value was captured
#### count
How many time this value was written
#### tags
Tags follow how they are defined in MISP using the MISP Taxonomy. Each Tag is separated with the ';' character.
#### ttl
Time To Live, represents the expiration in seconds since the time the Attribute was created. Once it has expired, it moves in the private Namespace _expired.
When an Attribute has this field set to 0, it means it is not set to expired. This is the default behavior.
When an Attribute has this field set to a number greater than 0, the expiration status is computed only at retrieval time.
#### frequency
Frequency is the number of time an Attribute is seen in average per day. As this field can introduced latence, its implementation is OPTIONAL.
#### manifold
When a given Attribute Value is stored in different namespaces, the manifold field keeps track of them so it returns in how many different places this attributes exists. This is a simple counter.
## SightingDB Format - One Attribute
~~~~
{
"value":"127.0.0.1",
"first_seen":1530394819,
"last_seen":1572933618,
"count":578391,
"tags":"",
"ttl":0,
"frequency":1185,
"manifold": 17
}
~~~~
# Acknowledgements