Date Sent: 11/18/2014
Date Completed: 11/25/2014

BALLOT:

Item 1: Add the new Mac OSX tests to the official 5.11 version of the OVAL Language.
Item 2: Add a test for checking the target path of a UNIX symlink.


OVERALL RESULTS:

Yes: 8
No: 0 
Total Organizations: 25
Quorum Required: 13
Total Vote: 8

Note: Based on sponsor guidance, we were given direction that if the vote is clear cut, but, quorum is 
not reached to proceed with the result of the vote.  As a result, since 8 members were in favor of 
adding these items and no members were against them, these items will be added to the official 5.11 
version of the OVAL Language.  Please contact oval@mitre.org with any questions or concerns regarding 
this vote.

INDIVIDUAL RESULTS:

Organization		    Vote        #1		#2
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Assuria Limited				
BeyondTrust Inc.			
Hewlett-Packard				
IBM Corporation				Y		Y
INADEV Corporation			
jOVAL.org				Y		Y
Lancope Inc.				
McAfee Inc.				Y		Y
Modulo					Y		Y
Qualys Inc.				
VMware					
SecPod Technologies			
Symantec Corporation			
ThreatGuard Inc.			Y		Y
Tripwire Inc.				
Cisco Systems Inc.			
Red Hat Inc.				
Center for Internet Security		Y		Y
DTCC					
Rockport Systems			
Unified Compliance			
Individual				
NIST					
SPAWAR					Y		Y
MITRE					Y		Y
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Note: A blank space in a table row above indicates the organization did not vote.

BACKGROUND:

The 9 new Mac OSX Tests were proposed by David Solin to authoritatively report on the OS' new features.
This would include the authorizationdb_test, corestorage_test, gatekeeper_test, keychain_test,
launchd_test, rlimit_test, softwareupdate_test, systemprofiler_test, and systemsetup_test.

The UNIX Symlink test was also proposed by David Solin to provide a solution to querying canonical paths.
Previously, there was no way to recursively examine the destination for symbolic links.

https://github.com/OVALProject/Sandbox/blob/master/x-macos-definitions-schema.xsd
https://github.com/OVALProject/Sandbox/blob/master/x-macos-system-characteristics-schema.xsd

https://github.com/OVALProject/Sandbox/blob/master/x-unix-definitions-schema.xsd
https://github.com/OVALProject/Sandbox/blob/master/x-unix-system-characteristics-schema.xsd