XML Signature WG

2000-March-02
Chairs: Donald Eastlake and Joseph Reagle
Note Taker: Joseph Reagle [text]

Participants

• Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola
• Joseph Reagle, W3C
• Ed Simon , Entrust Technologies Inc.
• Mark Bartel, JetForm Corporation
• John M. Boyer, PureEdge
• Mariano Consens, University of Waterloo

Status of documents < 5 minutes

• Requirements - in RFC editors que.
• Syntax and Processing - in Last Call in W3C, waiting for announce from Schiller.

Charter Revision 8 minutes

• Update milestones (though still aggressive).
• Active period should end in July, then WG cycles to low maintenance phase.

Main syntax document

Old Last Call Issues 10 minutes

• Transform: Maybe consider to change the type of attribute 'Charset' to 'uri'.

  Eastlake: Supposed to be on IANA Charset types, keep at Charset.

• Is minimal C14N sufficiently specified?

  Eastlake: Connolly asked question about line feeds and we responded use the XML line feed conventions. Yes, thinks it's adequate.

• If minimal canonicalization or Canonical XML has been chosen it is clear what forms the input of the signature method, because both methods are using UTF-8 as character encoding. But what if no canonicalization is used?

  Eastlake: If you don't specify any form of canonical XML, then the byte order is application specified. Bartel agrees.

New Last Call Issues 10 minutes

• Being queued in the Last Call Comments page.
• Simon's namespace proposal: something to think about further.

Senarios / Interop Test Cases 10 minutes

• Reagle: I hope to generate a version of the FAQ/Scenarios with the some good examples in there, with generated cryptographic values within the week.
• Boyer: will work on some of the sections.
• Simon: can generate cryptographic values.

Meetings

IETF in Adelaide 8 minutes

• Two requests to talk. IBM: tools; Juha Pääjärvi: SPKI
• Eatslake: Proposes April 10 as the FTF to deal with Last Call comments.