Re: [netmod] Stephen Farrell's No Objection on draft-ietf-netmod-yang-json-09: (with COMMENT)

[Eliot Lear <[e-mail]>]

On 3/21/16 4:19 PM, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> Lada, I think Stephen asks about JSON encoded YANG-defined data that
> is signed, that is, the JSON serialization itself is signed. What
> happens to the signature if you convert the JSON to corresponding XML
> serialization. I think the answer is that the signature is broken in
> this case and I think this is quite natural.
>
> Object signatures so far never came up in the NETCONF/YANG context
> (well not quite correct, I think there is some related discussion
> aroud the zero-config draft) but even if they do, I think we will have
> to accept that signatures are encoding specific. And I think this is
> not a big deal; if I sign my HTML encoded email, then the signature
> likely won't apply to a text-only rendering of the same email.
>

However this goes, it should be well documented somewhere.  This will
not be the first time this comes up (he says, knowingly).

Eliot