FW: Transition request for FPWD of 2 rec track documents for XML Security

FYI

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From: chairs-request@w3.org [mailto:chairs-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of
Frederick Hirsch
Sent: Friday, 2009 October 02 8:37
To: Thomas Roessler
Cc: Hirsch Frederick (Nokia-CIC/Boston); w3t-comm@w3.org; chairs@w3.org
Subject: Transition request for FPWD of 2 rec track documents for XML
Security

The XML Security WG requests a transition to First Public Working  
Draft of two working drafts intended to become W3C Recommendations .

Neither of these is a delta specification.

The Working Group has approved this request at its meeting on 29  
September 2009, please see
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/member-xmlsec/2009Sep/att-0015/29-x
mlsec-minutes.html#item05 
 >

The planned publication date for  these First Public Working Drafts is  
Thursday 8 October 2009.

The two prospective Recommendation track working drafts are:

Canonical XML Version 2.0
editor's draft: http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/Drafts/c14n-20/
shortname: xml-c14n2

XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 2.0
editor's draft: http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/Drafts/xmldsig-core-20/
shortname: xmldsig-core-2

Details are given below - abstract, status (upon publication line  
regarding editor's copy to be removed)

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch, Nokia
Chair XML Security WG

Canonical XML Version 2.0
Editor's Draft 28 September 2009

Abstract
Canonical XML Version 2.0 is a major rewrite of Canonical XML Version  
1.1 to address issues around performance, streaming, hardware  
implementation, robustness, minimizing attack surface, determining  
what is signed and more. It also incorporates an update to Exclusive  
Canonicalization, effectively a 2.0 version, as well.

Any XML document is part of a set of XML documents that are logically  
equivalent within an application context, but which vary in physical  
representation based on syntactic changes permitted by XML 1.0 [XML]  
and Namespaces in XML 1.0 [Namespaces]. This specification describes a  
method for generating a physical representation, the canonical form,  
of an XML document that accounts for the permissible changes. Except  
for limitations regarding a few unusual cases, if two documents have  
the same canonical form, then the two documents are logically  
equivalent within the given application context. Note that two  
documents may have differing canonical forms yet still be equivalent  
in a given context based on application-specific equivalence rules for  
which no generalized XML specification could account.

Canonical XML Version 2.0 is applicable to XML 1.0. It is not defined  
for XML 1.1.

Status of this Document
This document is an editors' copy that has no official standing.

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its  
publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of  
current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical  
report can be found in the W3C technical reports indexat
http://www.w3.org/TR/ 
.

This is a First Public Working Draft of "Canonical XML Version 2.0".

This document is expected to be further updated based on both Working  
Group input and public comments. The Working Group anticipates to  
eventually publish a stabilized version of this document as a W3C  
Recommendation.

This document was developed by the XML Security Working Group.

Please send comments about this document to
public-xmlsec-comments@w3.org 
  (with public archive).

Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C  
Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or  
obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite  
this document as other than work in progress.

This document was produced by a group operating under the 5 February  
2004 W3C Patent Policy. The W3C maintains a public list of any patent  
disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group;  
that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent. An  
individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual  
believes contains Essential Claim(s) must disclose the information in  
accordance with section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy.

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XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 2.0

Editor's Draft 28 September 2009

Abstract
This document specifies XML digital signature processing rules and  
syntax. XML Signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and/ 
or signer authentication services for data of any type, whether  
located within the XML that includes the signature or elsewhere.

Status of this Document
This document is an editors' copy that has no official standing.

This section describes the status of this document at the time of its  
publication. Other documents may supersede this document. A list of  
current W3C publications and the latest revision of this technical  
report can be found in the W3C technical reports indexat
http://www.w3.org/TR/ 
.

This is a First Public Working Draft of "XML Signature 2.0".

At the time of this publication, the XML Security WG is also producing  
"XML Signature Version 1.1". The most recent XML Signature  
Recommendation is "XML Signature, Second Edition".

This document is expected to be further updated based on both Working  
Group input and public comments. The Working Group anticipates to  
eventually publish a stabilized version of this document as a W3C  
Recommendation.

This document was developed by the XML Security Working Group.

Please send comments about this document to
public-xmlsec-comments@w3.org 
  (with public archive).

Publication as a Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C  
Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated, replaced or  
obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to cite  
this document as other than work in progress.

This document was produced by a group operating under the 5 February  
2004 W3C Patent Policy. The group does not expect this document to  
become a W3C Recommendation. W3C maintains a public list of any patent  
disclosures made in connection with the deliverables of the group;  
that page also includes instructions for disclosing a patent. An  
individual who has actual knowledge of a patent which the individual  
believes contains Essential Claim(s) must disclose the information in  
accordance with section 6 of the W3C Patent Policy.

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