RE: Poll on Exclusive Canonicalization

At 10:34 6/20/2001, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>There is more than one way to boil an ocean.

We need to specify it. (Canonical XML is done, there's nothing we can do to 
that spec.) The question is do we do specify exclusive canonicalization 
orthogonally and let xmldsig-core advance, or do we hold xmldsig-core until 
it's resolved so we can REQUIRE implementations to implement it. (Again, 
holding xmldsig-core for anything other than MUST doesn't make much sense to 
me now, and as you say the MUST in xmldsig-core won't tell people anything 
they don't already know if they face the enveloping scenario)...


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