Introductions - Steve Klos from TagVault.org

Folks,



My name is Steve Klos and I’m the executive director of TagVault.org as well
as a managing director of a consulting organization called Agnitio
Advisors.  I would generally use my TagVault.org address to send this
e-mail, but the network I’m on currently is not allowing an SSL connection
back to the TagVault.org SMTP server.  My work with the consulting
organization and the non-profit organization are tangentially related to
each other, but there is no direct association between the two.



I’m interested in joining up with this public distribution list due to the
fact that TagVault.org has implemented C14N v1 as part of the process for
digitally signing software identification (SWID) tags that are based on the
ISO/IEC 19770-2:2009 standard.  These digital signatures, along with a
timestamp that’s based on the XADES implementation, provide authoritative
information for any organization in the software supply, distribution and
use markets so that organizations can know exactly who published a software
title as well as having explicit details on the identification of the
software identification information.



I am particularly interested in the C14N v2 future recommendation.  The
specific issue of interest in the C14N v2 at this particular time is the
handling of white space as part of the canonicalization process.
Unfortunately, we are currently a small non-profit organization and at this
point in time, our cash flow does not allow us to implement C14N v2 to help
W3C provide market validation of the approach.  If this changes in the near
future, we would be glad to provide an implementation to validate the
approach…



Hopefully, by sending an e-mail to this distribution list, I’ll be signed up
for automatic distribution of future e-mail’s posted to this list.



Regards,



Steve Klos