XML Key Management Services WG

DRAFT 07 Decmber 2004 XKMS Teleconference Minutes
Chairs: Stephen Farrell, Shivaram Mysore
Note Taker: Stephen Farrell

Participants

• Shivaram Mysore
• Jose Kahan, W3C
• Tommy Lindberg
• Stephen Farrell, Trinity College
• Yunhao Zhang, SQLData

Part-time:

• Guillermo Alvaro, Trinity College

Regrets:

• Rich Salz

Agenda

• Announcements
• Review last telecon AIs
• Interop schedule
• AOB

Minutes

• In the last telecon we had the following AIs:
  
  1. AI: All - Don't forget to start thinking and writing down your ideas on what should constitute a compliant XKMS and/or XKRSS clients/servers based on your experience. Do we need to have several levels of compliancy or just one? Should they always support asynchronous, synchronous, and compound requests? STILL OPEN New AI: Jose raise an issue about where spec is unclear
  2. Yunhao said that the spec doesn't say anything on how many times should a client send a Status Request in order to complete a request. Rich sugges that maybe we should add a non normative choreography section or appendix to the spec to describe this. STILL OPEN - Yunhao to propose some guidance for inclusion in the test spec. and send to list CLOSED Yunhao to re-tx message
  3. AI: Shivaram - make spec changes accordingly. (for now, will be done in the next few days) DONE
  4. AI: Jose - update issues list - to follow after item 9 above and thus DONE.
  5. AI: Guillermo, Tommy and Yunhao (and whoever else is willing to devote effort) will work out the additional tests and other test spec changes over the next week. The work will take place on the list, giving everyone else a chance to see what's up. DONE
  6. We will freeze the test specification just before our next call (currently scheduled for Dec 7th)
  7. There will then be a 30-day period for carrying out interop testing (probably ending mid-January), the additional time allows for the Christmas/New Year break.
  8. AI: Shivaram, Stephen and Jose will start to prepare documents etc for the formal request for transition to PR. (We don't have a deadline there, but I guess the same mid-January one would be right.) STILL OPEN
  9. AI: Jose will check whether we need to extend the charter for this (we're formally to-be-done by year's end at the moment) STILL OPEN
  10. AI: Jose will add another question to the questionaire about compliance. CLOSED

Scheduling

We are still ok with the schedule agreed at the last concall.

For our next (Jan11th) concall we want to:

• have substantially completed execution and documentation of testing
• have prepared the documentation for the request for PR

New Tests

Guillermo went through the new tests.

Issues:

• limited use shared secret test issue - there will be no test devoted to stored shared secrets which are the output of the string2key function, i.e. where the input to the test is a "bare" symmetric key
• we will include a test case validing the string2key algorithm in section 8.1,. AI: Guillermo and Jose to generate such test cases
• on the basis that this is no MUST for DSA we do not need any such tests
• AI: Guillermo and Tommy fill in the "messages" sections (fragments/templates) for the new tests in the test spec. Due by 17th.

Spec issues since last concall (AI: Shivaram to include resolutions of these)

• section 8.1 discussed above (maybe some more mailing list discussion needed)
• partII section 4.1 needs additional editorial text describing the tables
• Jose had raised an editorial issue about QName and the spec.
• notbound authentication requires a bit more text and examples and maybe a clarified test case (to make clear where id can go)

AOB

Happy holidays of all the various sorts!

Next Telecon

• Next Telecon(s)
• Date: January 11th, 2005; Time - 4:30pm GMT/Dublin (if you're unlucky enough not to live in Dublin, you can check time for your local area here:-)
• Zakim Bridge (617) 761-6200 Code: "XKMS"
• Future telecons at the same time on January 25th
• Agenda: Frozen Test spec, Interop Matrix; issue list, Moving to PR