[Curdle] should we include xmldsig and xmlenc?

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

Hiya,

I was at a thing with some w3c folks yesterday and mentioned
curdle. It is conceivable that W3C may want to add codepoints
to xmldsig and xmlenc for the new curves, just like we do. So
far though, I've not seen anyone ask specifically for that.

xmldsig was a joint bit of work between the IETF and W3C but
that was a bit of a process-pain, so xmlenc was just done as
a W3C thing. OTOH, Don Eastlake did write up an RFC for some
additional algorithms for those as RFC6931 as well. [1] I
guess that amicable divorce wasn't ever fully finalised:-)

So, questions:

1. is there interest to define how to use the new curves for
   xmldsig and xmlenc?
2. if 1==yes, do we have volunteers to do the editing work?
3. if 1==yes and 2==yes, is curdle the right place to do that
   or should we just leave that to W3C to handle as and when
   they want?

FWIW, I've no strong opinions on this, but if this group
felt that the answers to all 3 questions are yes, then we
should probably sort that out with W3C (one way or another)
while we're chartering curdle. If any of the answers is no,
then we're good as-is and there's nothing else we need do
for now.

Cheers,
S.

PS: mnot and Wendy are cc'd as they're the relevant liaison
folks between the IETF and W3C.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6931