Re: SOAP Confidentiality and Integrity: Next Step?

Hi Joseph,

you're right about that ID stuff. A nice reading on that is [1]. What I see 
from the feedback from users of the Apache XML Signature implementation is 
that a general ID-type attribute which can be applied even without 
DTD/Schema is really a problem for many users. IDs which refer e.g. to 
<ds:Object> often work in different implementations because a ds:*/@Id is 
(by implicit knowledge) of type ID.

If the W3C could make a proposal on how we can use IDs WITHOUT DTD/Schema, 
that would be a GREAT deal.

Regards,
Christian

[1] <http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/11/07/id.html>

--On Mittwoch, 19. Juni 2002 09:33 -0400 Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org> 
wrote:

>
> On Tuesday 18 June 2002 06:12 pm, you wrote:
>>  Given that it looks like SOAP security will be rolled into ws-arch, what
>>  will become of [1]?
>
> I don't know. Notes are merely informational so nothing has to become of
> them. The scope of it, just like [4] could be within ws-arch, in fact I
> believe [4] subsumes [1] except for its specification of the foo:id
> attribute that is always treated as an ID attribute, even without a DTD.
> I  think this is a clever idea -- and it would've been nice if the XML
> folks  had made xml:Id a reserved attribute and this sort of does the
> same for s  specific namespace) But they didn't, and if such a hack/fix
> is applied now,  I think it should be done as a general XML fix.
>
>>  [4]
>>  http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/security/library/ws-secure/?dwzon
>> e= sec urity
>>  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnglob
>> sp ec/ html/ws-security.asp
>






Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Christian Geuer-Pollmann


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