- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 16:56:06 -0500
- To: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
Just saw this, thought it might be relevant:
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
Title : Capability Card: An Attribute Certificate in
XML
Author(s) : K. Otani, H. Sugano, M. Mitsuoka
Filename : draft-otani-ccard-00.txt
Pages : 26
Date : 19-Nov-98
This document describes basic ideas and data components of
'Capability Card,' which is a kind of attribute certificates designed
from the standpoint of a secure communication framework on the
Internet. Similar to the SPKI certificates, a capability card can be
used to grant a person particular access privileges to resources like
WWW pages, IRC channels, and message boxes. In addition, it can
carry a variety of descriptive information about the issuer, the
resources, and the privileges specified in it. A capability card is
written in XML, which is becoming a standard format rapidly for the
internet data exchange. Consequently, users can handle various
information in capability cards visually with an XML viewer. This is
a fairly desirable feature for the existing internet services.
In this document, following the motivation and the basic concepts,
the elements of XML DTD of capability cards are described.
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf-announce/msg02425.html
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