- From: Roland Merrick <roland_merrick@uk.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:24:38 +0100
- To: "Christos E. Sioulis" <CSioulis@dsa.gr>
- Cc: www-forms@w3.org
- Message-ID: <OF8B8D0FCC.7A2871D1-ON80256D08.004394CD-80256D08.00442A4F@portsmouth.uk.ibm.com>
Greetings, there is no support for digital signatures in XForms 1.0, it is however included as a future consideration in the April 2002 XForms Requirements Working Draft [ http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-forms-req#dsig ]. That said, there may well be vendors that add support for digital signatures to XForms 1.0 using the extensibility features defined in the specification. Regards, Roland "Christos E. Sioulis" <CSioulis@dsa.gr> Sent by: www-forms-request@w3.org 14/04/2003 09:58 To: "ΛΙΣΤΑ W3.org - XForms" <www-forms@w3.org> cc: Subject: Re: form solutions Hi all, I am not a 'technician' (I am just a lawyer interesting in IT evolution) and I am not an 'XML expert', but I keep 'watching' this mail list since 12-11-02 (396 messages till now!), waiting to see if the 'issue' of 'Digital Signature' will be discussed in this forum! (especially from the point of view of the very prescriptive approach of the *european legislation* and the corresponding standardization that has been done -until now- by ETSI & CEN in ths context of EESS Initiative). I can understand that X-Forms is a very useful tool/method to 'collect, transfer & manage specific data/declarations' ('instances'!) through different devices using XML technology (-am I wrong?) but what about the authentication, the integrity and the non repudiation of these 'data/instances' ??? (in the 'home page' of the X-Forms project -http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/- I haven't seen any relationship with other WG which are working on these issues!) My questions: - Has anybody of this team read the ETSI TS 101 903 'XML Advanced Electronic Signatures' (XAdES) document and looked for any relationship of X-Forms with the other similar 'tecnical specifications' of ETSI/ESI (http://portal.etsi.org/esi/el-sign.asp) and CEN/ISSS WS/E-Sign (http://www2.ni.din.de/index.php?lang=en)? - Does anybody of this team care if X-Forms could be 'encorporated' in solutions/application *compliant* with the European Directive 99/93/EC rules for 'qualified electronic signatures'? (it would be very intersting to see i.e., how the 'WYSIWYSign' requirement could be approached using X-Forms!) :-) [I understand that most of you belong in different 'legal enviroment' (common law/contract based), but I think that there are european & other IT industries that would like to use X-Forms in applications that conform to the above standards for 'secure (signed) e-transactions' (in civil law/prescriptive regulation context)!] Thank for your attention, Christos Sioulis Athens Lawyer - IT Law Consultant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Haime" <greg@xitix.com> To: <www-forms@w3.org> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 10:11 AM Subject: form solutions | | Hi, | | There are quite some professional form solution providers out there like Adobe, Shana, PureEdge, Kana to name a few, that already claim to have the perfect form solution in house, mostly based on an own XML dialect. | | Does anyone know how these professional form solution providers look at Xforms? Will they adapt Xforms in their solution? If not, what reason do they give not to adapt Xforms? One of the shortcomes, I understand, is that Xforms does not support digital signatures (yet). | | | Thx, | | Greg | | --- Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.470 / Virus Database: 268 - Release Date: 8/4/2003
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