Re: further revised RetrievalMethod

I think Type should be mandatory.  People who have defined their own
KeyInfo data element can easily construct a type for it.

Donald

From:  "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle@w3.org>
Resent-Date:  Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:52:14 -0400 (EDT)
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Date:  Thu, 07 Sep 2000 12:51:56 -0400
To:  Donald Eastlake 3rd <dee3@torque.pothole.com>
Cc:  "IETF/W3C XML-DSig WG" <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
In-Reply-To:  <200009071615.MAA08704@noah.dma.isg.mot.com>

>At 12:15 9/7/2000 -0400, Donald Eastlake 3rd wrote:
>
>><code>DigestMethod</code> or <code>DigestValue</code> sub-element and
>>presence of the <code>URI</code> and <code>Type</code> attributes is
>>mandatory.
>
>We still have to deal with the mandatorines of that attribute. That means 
>people HAVE to come up with a type. Is this intended? We only specify a 
>subset of key types. Consequently people will come up with other types (that 
>is fine) or throw dummy text in there which seems like a bad thing if they 
>want to rely upon type information found elsewhere.
>
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>Joseph Reagle Jr.
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Received on Thursday, 7 September 2000 13:27:13 UTC