Re: minimal canonicalization

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At 03:16 PM 7/24/2002 -0400, Joseph Reagle wrote:
>On Wednesday 24 July 2002 01:30 pm, Rich Salz wrote:
>> It is sad that there are five C14N algorithms (minimal, c14n c14n
>> w/comments, excl, excl w/comments).  
>
>We followed the use cases. The first was signing parts of forms, for
>which  c14n works well (and we decided to make a comments parameter
>since we  couldn't rule them in or out all-together). exc-c14n
>followed the messaging  scenario. I don't think it's accurate to
>even say there is a "minimal" c14n  as presently there is no
>normative specification nor interop report.  Instead, all we
>recommend is if people have constrained applications what 
>characters they need to grab in the SignedInfo and their operation
>can be  profiled/constrained to always read/write c14n syntax.

If one writes c14n syntax, does that mean that there are no namespace
abbreviations (that they're all expanded to full urn's)?

 - Carl

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Received on Wednesday, 24 July 2002 20:41:32 UTC