Re: XML Signatures and binary files

I would make mime-type optional.

----- Original Message -----
From: "merlin" <merlin@baltimore.ie>
To: "Joseph M. Reagle Jr." <reagle@w3.org>
Cc: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@torque.pothole.com>; "Dournaee, Blake"
<bdournaee@rsasecurity.com>; <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 4:09 AM
Subject: Re: XML Signatures and binary files


>
> I've always thought that Encoding and MimeType were a bit
> weird. They seem only to have meaning for character content
> (which will be the minority of uses), the encoding is implicit
> in the Transforms applied of the corresponding Reference and
> the MimeType can be represented by its Type attribute. It
> would make more sense to me if they were defined on a MimeData
> element that could be used within Object, but I would not
> even advocate that.
>
> Merlin
>
> r/reagle@w3.org/2001.05.17/09:24:46
> >At 08:34 5/17/2001 -0400, Donald E. Eastlake 3rd wrote:
> >>Close, but I would think it would be more like
> >>
> >><Object Id="arbitraryBase64EncodedData"
> >>         Encoding="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#base64"
> >>         MimeType="application/octet-stream">
> >
> >The reason this concerned me is I think the spec is a bit ambigous on
this
> >note. In your instance the Encoding and MimeType are redundant -- I
think?
> >Or is the MimeType the type of the object regardless of its encoding?
> >
> >__
> >Joseph Reagle Jr.                 http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/
> >W3C Policy Analyst                mailto:reagle@w3.org
> >IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair   http://www.w3.org/Signature
> >W3C XML Encryption Chair          http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/
> >
>
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