RE: New C14N/1.1 WD and Web Services Policy 1.5 - Framework (ed. copy)

Our email to you was a suggestion that you might want
to review the latest C14N related WDs.

As such, we made no comment for you to dispose, so we
have no reply to your request to let you know if we
agree with anything.

Should we take your message as a review of the C14N 1.1
WD?  If so, I'm not sure if there is a comment herein
for us to dispose, but in case there is, we thank you
for your comment, and we plan no changes to the drafts
as a result of your review.

Please let us know if you agree with this disposition of 
your comment.

paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Cotton [mailto:Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 2006 October 04 11:59
> To: jose.kahan@w3.org
> Cc: public-ws-policy@w3.org
> Subject: RE: New C14N/1.1 WD and Web Services Policy 1.5 - 
> Framework (ed. copy)
> 
> The WS-Policy WG has reviewed your email and we believe the 
> heart of the XML Core WG proposal is in the following paragraph:
> 
> > You may wish to apply the procedure described in Section 2.2 of the
> > dsig-usage note [2] to apply a C14N/1.1 transformation. This could
> > help you avoid having to define an alternate xml:id attribute.
> 
> The WS-Policy WG does NOT want to remove the usage of wsu:id 
> from our specification due to the following three reasons:
> 
> a) Support for wsu:id must not be removed since our charter 
> strongly urges backwards compatibility with existing policy 
> assertions in:
> "Web Services Policy should remain compatible with existing 
> policy assertions and offer a smooth migration path for these 
> assertions (where applicable)."
> 
> b) Support for wsu:id must not be removed since it is 
> unlikely that WS-Policy CR implementations will include 
> support for xml:id, C14N/1.1 and/or the as yet to be started 
> revised version of XML DSig.
> 
> c) Support for wsu:id must not be removed since it is 
> premature to normatively depend on C14N/1.1 or the dsig-usage 
> Note since they have not yet proceeded through CR and the 
> proposed W3C XML DSig revision work has not yet begun 
> (although it is proposed).
> 
> The WS-Policy WG is willing to add non-normative references 
> to the C14N/1.1 WD and the dsig-usage Note as guidance to how 
> the problems with xml:id MAY be solved.
> 
> Please let us know if you agree with this disposition of your comment.
> 
> /paulc
> For the WS-Policy WG
> 
> Paul Cotton, Microsoft Canada
> 17 Eleanor Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K2E 6A3
> Tel: (613) 225-5445 Fax: (425) 936-7329
> mailto:Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: public-ws-policy-request@w3.org [mailto:public-ws-policy-
> > request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Jose Kahan
> > Sent: September 20, 2006 11:35 AM
> > To: public-ws-policy@w3.org
> > Subject: New C14N/1.1 WD and Web Services Policy 1.5 - 
> Framework (ed.
> > copy)
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm writing on behalf of the XML-Core Working Group. We'd 
> like to bring to
> > your attention that we have published three C14N related 
> documents and
> > welcome
> > review to them [1].
> >
> > Specifically, there is a new Working Draft for C14N/1.1 
> that takes into
> > account different issues related to C14N and the evolution 
> of XML core
> > technologies, including xml:id.
> >
> > In parallel, W3C is working on a charter for a new W3C 
> Working Group that
> > would have task of making an editorial revision of XML 
> Signature to make
> > mandatory the use of C14N/1.1, thus making it possible to 
> correctly take
> > into
> > documents that include xml:id attributes. See the related 
> dsig-usage note
> > [2] and the thread on the w3c-ietf-xmldsig mailing list [3].
> >
> > In particular, this work should solve the problem you describe in
> > Section 4.2 of the recent Editor's Draft for the Web 
> Services Policy 1.5 -
> > Framework [4]:
> >
> > <quote>
> >
> > /wsp:Policy/(@wsu:Id | @xml:id)
> >
> > The identity of the policy expression as an ID within the 
> enclosing XML
> > document. If omitted, there is no implied value. To refer 
> to this policy
> > expression, an IRI-reference  MAY be formed using this 
> value per Section
> > 4.2 of WS-Security [WS-Security 2004] when @wsu:Id is used.
> >
> > The use of xml:id attribute in conjunction with Canonical XML 1.0 is
> > inappropriate as described in Appendix C of xml:id Version 
> 1.0 [XML ID]
> > and thus this combination must be avoided (see [C14N 1.0 Note]). For
> > example, a policy expression identified using xml:id 
> attribute should not
> > be signed using XML Digital Signature when Canonical XML 
> 1.0 is being used
> > as the canonicalization method.
> >
> > </quote>
> >
> > You may wish to apply the procedure described in Section 2.2 of the
> > dsig-usage note [2] to apply a C14N/1.1 transformation. 
> This could help
> > you avoid having to define an alternate xml:id attribute.
> >
> > You can send comments related to the C14N drafts to the following
> > public-archived list:
> >
> >    www-xml-canonicalization-comments@w3.org
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > -jose
> >
> > [1]
> > 
> http://www.w3.org/2002/02/mid/CF83BAA719FD2C439D25CBB1C9D1D302
> 04ABFCD3@HQ-
> > MAIL4.ptcnet.ptc.com
> >
> > [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-DSig-usage-20060915/
> >
> > [3]
> > 
> http://www.w3.org/2002/02/mid/20060918163151.GO2766@raktajino.
> does-not-
> > exist.org
> >
> > [4]
> > http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/ws/policy/ws-policy-
> > 
> framework.html?content-type=text/html;charset=utf-8#Policy_Ide
> ntification
> 
> 
>

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