DSS-X: first draft of answer to Bob Jolliffe from ODF

[Juan Carlos Cruellas <cruellas@ac.upc.edu>]

Dear all,

I have drafted the start of a message in answer to the one that Bob 
Jolliffe, from ODF addressed to us, in order to discuss it today...

Regards

Juan Carlos.

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Dear Mr Jolliffe,


I am writing on behalf of the OASIS DSS-X TC in response to your email 
of 14th August 2008.

First of all, the DSS-X TC wants to thank you for the submission of the 
aforementioned email.

 From the review of the specific questions that you include in your 
email, it is the opinion of this TC that questions #1, #2, #3 and #5 
actually are more related to the XAdES standard itself than to the DSS 
profile for managing generation and verification of XAdES sigantures 
produced by this committee. It is the opinion of this TC that ETSI 
Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures (ESI) Committee is the 
suitable body to answer them.

As for question #4, as you notice, DSS produced and DSS-X is producing a 
number of profiles for matching the DSS core standard to specific 
environments or to incorporate new features. The DSS set of standards 
also allow to combine different profiles incorporating additional 
features for obtaining more powerfullness.

This approach allows to incorporate in the core a set of basic yet 
relevant features, and still allowing that those systems requiring 
additional ones may make use of the profiles.



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