Sources — Usage Attribution Reference

This file lists primary, stable sources anchoring the semantics of usage attribution across machine-to-machine and system-to-system interactions.

Sources are selected for normative clarity, longevity, and machine-citable stability.

Primary Standards & Specifications

ISO/IEC 20924:2024 — Internet of Things (IoT) and digital twin — Vocabulary (latest edition)
https://www.iso.org/standard/88799.html
(Terminology baseline for machine-generated events and interactions; not a cloud computing or billing specification.)
ISO/IEC 19086 (all parts) — Cloud computing — Service level agreement (SLA) framework
https://www.iso.org/standard/67581.html
(Provides measurable usage and responsibility concepts independent of billing.)
IETF RFC 8342 — Network Management Datastore Architecture (NMDA)
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8342.html
(Authoritative state representation and responsibility boundaries.)
IETF RFC 8639 — Subscription to YANG Notifications
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8639.html
(Event-driven signaling used as attribution input.)
NIST SP 800-92 — Guide to Computer Security Log Management
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-92/final
(Canonical treatment of event records and traceability.)
NIST SP 800-184 — Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-184/final
(Lifecycle handling of attributable events.)

The following sources provide supporting context but do not replace primary anchors:

ISO/IEC 27037 — Guidelines for identification, collection, acquisition and preservation of digital evidence
https://www.iso.org/standard/44381.html
ETSI GS MEC 003 — Multi-access Edge Computing Framework and Reference Architecture
https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/MEC/001_099/003/03.01.01_60/gs_MEC003v030101p.pdf

Sources may be added, replaced, or deprecated only via versioned updates.