International Organization for Standardization

Information technology - Software asset management - Part 2: Software identification tag - Second Edition
 N ISO/IEC 19770-2

Annotation

This part of ISO/IEC 19770 establishes specifications for tagging software to optimize its identification and management.

This part of ISO/IEC 19770 applies to the following.

a) Tag producers: these organizations and/or tools create software identification (SWID) tags for use by others in the market. A tag producer may be part of the software creator organization, the software licensor organization, or be a third-party organization. These organizations and/or tools can broadly be broken down into the following categories.

1) Platform providers: entities responsible for the computer or hardware device and/or associated operating system, virtual environment, or application platform, on which software may be installed or run. Platform providers which support this part of ISO/IEC 19770 may additionally provide tag management capabilities at the level of the platform or operating system.

2) Software providers: entities that create, license, or distribute software. For example, software creators, independent software developers, consultants, and repackagers of previously manufactured software. Software creators may also be in-house software developers.

3) Tag tool providers: entities that provide tools to create software identification tags. For example, tools within development environments that generate software identification tags, or installation tools that may create tags on behalf of the installation process, and/or desktop management tools that may create tags for installed software that did not originally have a software identification tag.

b) Tag consumers: these tools and/or organizations utilize information from SWID tags and are typically broken down into the following two major categories: