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Re: repercussions

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Subject: Re: repercussions
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 08:11:37 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <r02000200-1028-35D5234E323E11D8AE870003937A08C2@[192.168.124.11]>

> It's good to confirm that issues derided as mere aesthetic blotches are
> capable of causing real problems for sophisticated tools - and users.

We just went through a fairly contentious telecon for WS-Security that
decided to remove all QNAME's from the WSSE spec, replacing them with
URI's.  The usual arguments against them took place; the main counter-
balance against removing them was (unstated) installed base.  BTW, the
recent TAG finding was taken as a strong argument against QNAME's in
content.
	/r$

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Rich Salz                  Chief Security Architect
DataPower Technology       http://www.datapower.com
XS40 XML Security Gateway  http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
XML Security Overview      http://www.datapower.com/xmldev/xmlsecurity.html

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