- From: Frederick Hirsch <hirsch@zolera.com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 14:27:30 -0400
- To: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>, <www-xkms-ws@w3.org>
The proposal and charter are excellent, but to me seem to emphasize PKI too heavily. Couldn't the XKMS technology be used for public key management without creating a PKI infrastructure behind the XKMS server? To this end I would propose rephrasing a few items in the proposal and charter, namely Proposal Section 2: The objective is to shield applications from the key management process, which could be PKI based or some other process. I would suggest changing the heading Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) to Public Key Technology. Likewise I would change "XKMS is a PKI trust service" to "XKMS is a key management and key trust service ..." and not presume an underlying PKI. Charter As Blair mentioned the heading in the document should have "Charter" at the end. I would modify the mission statement: "The mission of this working group is to develop an XML application protocol that allows a simple client to obtain key management and trust services from a web service." In the communications mechanisms section, the web page is http://www.w3.org/2001/XKMS as Joseph mentioned --- Frederick Hirsch Zolera Systems, Your Key to Online Integrity Securing Web services: XML, SOAP, Dig-sig, Encryption http://www.zolera.com/
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