- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:24:44 -0400
- To: <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
xmldsig-filter2 is now a W3C Working Draft [1]. I expect to move to last call (and through CR) very quickly. The only thing I'd like to see addressed before then is an indication of performance results over the document John sent with xpath filters that effect the selections he specified. Also, I was also considering publishing exc-c14n as a Proposed REC at the end of April too. However, while I've made sure the path is clear (i.e., Proposed REC review meetings), I won't do the actual publishing until I get back from my travel in May. (The web team has a backlog of other specs to publish before the May 1 publishing moratorium and I didn't feel I needed to push this spec in before then.) [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xmldsig-filter2-20020425/ Abstract XML Signature [XML-DSig] recommends a standard means for specifying information content to be digitally signed and for representing the resulting digital signatures in XML. Some applications require the ability to specify a subset of a given XML document as the information content to be signed. The XML Signature specification meets this requirement with the XPath transform. However, this transform can be difficult to implement efficiently with existing technologies. This specification defines a new XML Signature transform to facilitate the development of efficient document subsetting technologies that interoperate under similar performance profiles. Status of this document This is the first publication for the "Signature Filter Transform" Working Draft from the IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group (Activity Statement). This specification defines an alternative to behaviour of the XPath transform of the XML Signature Recommendation [XML-DSig]. The goal is to (1) more easily specify XPath transforms and (2) more efficiently process those transforms. This specification has already received a large amount of discussion and implementation within the Working Group. We hope to move to and through Last Call and then Candidate Recommendation very quickly.
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