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Re: [woes] New WOES charter proposal

Leif Johansson <leifj@mnt.se> Mon, 25 July 2011 17:16 UTC

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On 07/25/2011 06:59 PM, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
> I now find myself hoping this is not the beginning someone making a case
> for ASN.1 encoding in WOES.
> 
> For my edification, can someone comment on how CMS would likely be
> referenced in WOES? Would it likely be a normative reference (i.e. key
> transport/wrapping, as it is in xmlenc-core), or otherwise would it
> probably be just informational?

We seem to be bike-shedding on the words "based on" in the charter.
Perhaps it helps if we say something to the effect that WOES draws
upon experience from CMS and XML-dsig/enc and leave it at that.

	Cheers Leif
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