Maturity: Actions

Maturity Spectrum Rationale

Semantic Consensus: Medium

As with Events, Actions are a little undefined in terms of scope and context. For the most part they are intended to represent abstractions of system-level API calls (e.g., CreateFileEx in Windows), as used in MAEC. However, they could also be used to represent more abstract, non-API call actions, such as the receiving of an email message.

Semantic Completeness: Medium

Depending on how the scope of Actions is defined, there is a potential for them to have additional fields and properties, as well as many more values for the default action names vocabulary.

Existing Use: Medium

Actions are used primarily through MAEC and its corresponding implementations.