Re: Draft registration of application/soap+xml

I don't think it's necessary to get into the whole tunneled thing here. 
It is simpler (and less controversial) to say that the message may avail 
itself of underlying transport-level security, and/or that XML features 
such as DSIG and XMLENC may be used to provide soap-level security features.


>   The SOAP processing model itself is entirely innocuous from a security
>   perspective.


I don't think so, since it doesn't seem feasible to encrypt the actor 
and mustUnderstand values.  If a message is intended to go A->B->C->D 
but encrypted so only B knows the C-uri, then an adversary could 
redirect the message from B directly to D.
	/r$
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Received on Friday, 4 January 2002 12:32:05 UTC