[woes] "Basing" on CMS

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Wed, 13 July 2011 17:42 UTC

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On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:27 AM, Mike Jones wrote:

> I strongly disagree with the "basing on CMS" wording.  I'd be OK with wording more like "drawing upon existing inputs such as CMS, XMLDSIG, and XMLENC".
> 
> There's a lot to reuse from these documents.  But it's prejudicial to have a discussion that starts from the assumption that we are basing this work on CMS.

As someone who participated in the early XMLDSIG and XMLENC work, I have to ask: what do they have for this JSON work that CMS doesn't? That is, there was a conscious attempt to mirror CMS structures in them. Where they strayed (such as on namespaces), they went to hell.

One or two examples here would really help.

--Paul Hoffman