Re: KeyInfo interoperability

I believe that in cases where the XMLDSIG standard specifies
particular grandchildren of KeyInfo, such as X509Certificate,
PGPKeyPacket, or SPKISexp and there has not been any interoperability
demonstrated, we may have to move that part of the spec to the
Additional URIs document or to an appendix. The situation is less
clear for KeyInfo children that really just reserve a slot for
something pretty much undefined, like MgmtData. I'm not sure we need
to demonstrate anything there.

Thanks,
Donald

From:  merlin <merlin@baltimore.ie>
To:  "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@torque.pothole.com>
Cc:  w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
In-reply-to:  <200105081937.PAA0000092383@torque.pothole.com> 
Date:  Wed, 09 May 2001 17:08:38 +0100
Message-Id:  <20010509160838.DEF9B43EC0@yog-sothoth.ie.baltimore.com>

>Hi Donald,
>
>The RetrievalMethod example from the last interop points at
>an X509Data containing X509SubjectName, X509IssuerSerial and
>X509Certificate. Clearly the certificate worked, as that is
>where the verification key was retrieved. As for the other
>bits, what are the criteria for interop? Successful parsing?
>
>Is it important (from the perspective of having XMLDSIG
>successfully advanced along standards tracks) to have hard
>interop on these other features?
>
>Merlin
>
>r/dee3@torque.pothole.com/2001.05.08/15:37:02
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'd like to know what interoperability there has benn between
>>independent implementations of KeyInfo types other than KeyValue and
>>RetrievalMethod.
>>
>>In particular, has there been such interoperation for
>>	X509Data, PGPData, or SPKIData
>>and if so with what subelement or elements?
>>Also for KeyName, are there two implementations which have agreed on
>>some particular interpretation for some KeyName values and
>>interoperated?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Donald
>>
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