User Story

As an OSCAL developer, I need to be able to locally define "asset-type" values (for components and/or inventory items) that currently are not defined in core OSCAL.

Goals

Systems can be comprised of a variety of physical and/or virtual components (e.g., gateway devices, load balancers, object storage, cloud-based services, etc.) that cannot be categorized by the current defined list of asset types (see documentation).

The goals of this issue are as follows:

• Allow ability to locally define values for "asset-type". This should apply on
  • all components
  • all inventory items
• Make the <prop name='asset-type' value='...'/> prop optional on components. Certain components (e.g. "this-system", leveraged systems, documentation, etc.) may not require an "asset-type".

Dependencies

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Acceptance Criteria

• All OSCAL website and readme documentation affected by the changes in this issue have been updated. Changes to the OSCAL website can be made in the docs/content directory of your branch.
• A Pull Request (PR) is submitted that fully addresses the goals of this User Story. This issue is referenced in the PR.
• The CI-CD build process runs without any reported errors on the PR. This can be confirmed by reviewing that all checks have passed in the PR.

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Revisions

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