- From: Malte Borcherding <Malte.Borcherding@brokat.com>
- Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:04:56 +0100
- To: IETF/W3C XML-DSig WG <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
"Joseph M. Reagle Jr." wrote: > I still don't understand (please show me an example of what this provides > above/beyond my example). Actually, your example is fine. Adding a new namespace for general crypto references is not so much a matter of simplifying a concrete specification, but can help (in my view) to make the design of additional Schemata using crypto easier, as there is a canonical place to look for previous definitions of crypto primitives. It could help to avoid multiple definitions of the same algorithms in several places, as happened with OIDs. As I have not been involved in the XML Signature definition process up to now, I am not sure if, how and when this can be realized, but I like the idea of crypto namespaces along the lines sketched by Ed Simon, where the definions might even contain informational mappings to OIDs. But then, this might also be > interesting, but a bit > too advanced for my tastes at this moment. Malte -- --------------------------------------------------------------- Malte Borcherding Technical Research Manager BROKAT Infosystems AG Voice: (+49)711-78844 231 Industriestr. 3 Fax: (+49)711-78844 779 70565 Stuttgart WWW: http://www.brokat.com Germany email: Malte.Borcherding@brokat.com
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