Re: [pkng] json-dsig anyone?

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 22 March 2010 04:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pkng] json-dsig anyone?
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On 21 Mar 2010, at 13:38, Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> wrote:

> At 7:35 PM +0100 3/21/10, Leif Johansson wrote:
>> I've been thinking that whatever pkng winds up looking like it will  
>> probably have to be easily integratable in front channel interfaces
>> and support multiple representations. Today that means json...
>>
>> I started to look for evidence for work on "json-dsig" and found
>> this:
>>
>> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Canonical_JSON
>>
>> Does anyone have contacts into OPLC and/or know something about this
>> stuff and why they'd be interested?
>
> As everyone should remember, "formats" is for later, not now.

Eh ... What is "for now" again? Hard to recall with so little  
happening. Maybe letting formatters run free might help?
(not a criticism since I also probably promised to do stuff but just a  
suggestion)

S

> Having said that, it is well worth being sure that a format we might  
> want to use can be canonicalized, and that maybe someoe has thought  
> about how to associate a signature with a blob.
>
> --Paul Hoffman, Director
> --VPN Consortium
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