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Common Platform Enumeration

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A SCAP specification that provides a standard naming convention for operating systems, hardware, and applications for the purpose of providing consistent, easily parsed names that can be shared by multiple parties and solutions to refer to the same specific platform type.

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Classifications

per-axis with provenance

Entity Type

Technical Specification100%manual reviewI-079.framework_split

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Framework is split by kind (Dorian, 2026-10-07; cki DESIGN.md I-079)

Sensitivity

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Information Class

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Variants

4 surface forms

acronym: CPE
plural: Common Platform Enumerations
possessive: Common Platform Enumeration's
pluralpossessive: Common Platform Enumerations'

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