RE: [dss] Comments on Requirements Draft

[Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net>]

At 11:07 AM 3/28/2003 -0500, Robert Zuccherato wrote:

>Trevor;
>
>Just a few responses below.
>
> > >Question 2:  Personally I see no need to support a request
> > time as well as
> > >a signing time.  Unless someone can come up with a use case
> > that would
> > >support it, I would suggest that we only support signing time.
> >
> > I think on the call we talked about "asynchronous" protocol
> > runs, where the
> > client sends a request (maybe in email or something), then a
> > human reviews
> > it, and then several hours later the request is approved and a signed
> > document is returned.
> >
> > In that case signing time and request time could be substantially
> > different.  Do we want to support that case?
>
>Even if we support an asynchronous protocol, its not clear to me that the
>request time adds anything.  What is a relying party going to do with it?

can't think of anything.  In any case, it would be trivial for some binding 
to define such a thing, if needed, so I guess we'll leave it out.

Trevor