RE: additional XMLDSIG URIs

Two questions:

1) Why did you choose to use URLs that were not of the form
"http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#<something>", where the something is
sha256, sha284, etc.  Ideally these should probably be NIST-defined
identifiers, and failing that I would have expected them to follow the
XMLDSIG naming scheme.  

2) Why did you add the truncation options to SHA-384 and SHA-512?  I
can't really see a point in this; if you want a shorter hash output then
just use a shorter hash function.  DO you have a particular scenario in
mind that would likely want to use a subset of a SHA-384 or SHA-512
hash?

					--bal

-----Original Message-----
From: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd [mailto:dee3@torque.pothole.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 8:59 PM
To: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
Cc: lde008@dms.isg.mot.com
Subject: additional XMLDSIG URIs



My first partial draft of additional XMLDSIG URIs is at
<ftp://ftp.pothole.com/pub/dee3/draft-eastlake-xmldsig-uri-00.txt>

Donald

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