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• To: "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw@l...>
• Subject: Re: XML Binary Characterization WG public list available
• From: Rich Salz <rsalz@d...>
• Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 14:15:58 -0400
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> I would not advise anyone to hold their breath waiting on a concensus on 
> a convention, but coming up with a useful convention for digital 
> signature and encryption varies from easy to reasonably difficult, 
> depending on your requirements.

Balkanized islands of security?  Seems like a big step backward.  If the 
folks in Redmond did this, people would be all over Dare&Co for trying 
to kill the open secure WS stuff that they and IBM have been touting for 
years.

The security ship has sailed, and you'll never got those genii's back in 
a bottle, or a con-call.  (Gaak, I sound like Len)

Point solutions are possible, but political and interop reasons will 
make everyone just fall back to angle brackets.  XML DSIG and Encryption 
are frozen -- just try to get W3C to create new WG's for Infoset-based 
approach.  (Yes, those groups are gone and closed, so you have to start 
from scratch.  Wise Man, Joseph...)  By follow-on, anything that depends 
on XML cryptography -- WS-Security et alia -- are similarly frozen to 
the XML 1.x serializations.  Feel free to disagree; the only possible 
answer is "we'll see."

	/r$
-- 
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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