Folks, I have no idea who among you follows the PKIX-discussions, where new XML- and PKI-related workitems have been discussed and promoted mainly by some folks like Anders Rundgren and myself and others and fighted against by others :-). Topics would be anything that is PKI and XML related (so XMLDsig would have been a candidate if it did not exist already) starting from Attribute-Certificates, where some think that they are so application-specific anyway that nobody will use the current AC-draft anyway, up to the extreme - definitions of Public-Key-Certs in XML, whatever the WG-participants decide to pursue. Anybody interested in (religious) discussions should please read the relevant messages (archive at http://www.imc.org/ietf-pkix/mail-archive/) first to spare us some time by avoiding repeating arguments. The idea now was how to proceed. Options are - that this was a stupid idea from the beginning and everybody involved should be ashamed - to have it as an activity which would be ideally placed within the PKIX-group (which is not really an option as Steven Kent and many others would not support it) - to have it as a new activity of the XML-DSig WG - to start a new WG within the IETF - to start a new WG within W3C - to start a new joint WG within W3C/IETF rumours tell that the XML-encryption-WG has been placed within the W3C due to the experiences of the joint XML-DSIG effort. As this group is as close to these topics as I can think, I'd like to get your opinions. Peter ____________________ Dr. Peter Lipp IAIK, TU Graz Inffeldgasse 16a A-8010 Graz Phone: +43 316 873 5513 Fax: +43 316 873 5520 eMail: Peter.Lipp@iaik.at
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