RE: ACTION-581: proposal around IDness of attributes from Scott Cantor on 2010-08-23 (public-xmlsec@w3.org from August 2010)

From: Scott Cantor <cantor.2@osu.edu>
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:57:32 -0400
To: <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com>
Cc: <public-xmlsec@w3.org>
Message-ID: <02b501cb42ec$a95e8490$fc1b8db0$@osu.edu>

> I would, however,  suggest a new child assertion within dsig2:Verification
> element so as to not conflate IDness with other position assertions, since
> the intent is somewhat different and a verifier might wish to deal with
> IDness while not position etc.

They're both about ID reference processing (I don't think the position
assertion applies to any other kind of reference?), but I don't feel
strongly about combining them.

> How about a dsig2:IDassertions child of the dsig2:Verification element?

I think I'd call it IDAttributes.

-- Scott

Received on Monday, 23 August 2010 17:58:14 UTC