Re: [woes] New WOES charter proposal

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Mon, 25 July 2011 17:29 UTC

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Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 13:28:59 -0400
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Subject: Re: [woes] New WOES charter proposal
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That works for me. Certainly when I talk about basing something on
CMS, what I mean
is that I'm imitating CMS, not that there is a normative dependency.

-Ekr


On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Matt Miller <mamille2@cisco.com> wrote:
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> On Jul 25, 2011, at 13:16, Leif Johansson wrote:
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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.
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>>> 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?
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>> 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.
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> +1
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> Matt Miller - <mamille2@cisco.com>
> Collaboration Software Group - Cisco Systems, Inc.
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