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Subject: RE: [dss] status of core
At 04:39 PM 9/30/2004 +0100, Nick Pope wrote: >Trevor > >This is a useful set of proposals, thanks to you Ed, and Gregor. If we can >agree on these changes and close of the outstanding issues by the end of the >next conf call then I should think that we would be in a position to produce >a further DSS working draft. > >Can I ask for clarification on the first functional change: >" 1) Lines 278-282, 370-376, 937-943: Replace use of transmitted DTDs with >XML Schema. Probably doesn't need to be base64 encoded any more." > >Can the XML schema be the subset of the document schema needed to identify >the ID attributes? If so can a few words be added to claify this. Yes, agreed. >Why was the base64 encoding applied to the DTD? Was this to hid the non-XML >syntax? Yes. > If so then I agree this is not needed, although keeping it in >Base64 may possibly help handling this as one information object. I'm not sure, either - but I'm leaning towards no base64. >Regarding Outstanding Issues and following on from the discuss at the conf >call; >1) I agree with your suggestion to add clarification that the input document >may be a [document], signature or manifest to be timestamped / coutersigned. > >2) >- I believe that we concluded that manifest should be prepared by the >client. >- If it is easy to define structures to return more information for ><VerifyManifest> this would be useful. I like it how it is (treat Manifests just like other References). >- I don't think that adding more complexity to <ReturnedTransormedDocument> >is necessary at this stage. > >3) More specific <ProcessingDetails> would be useful as long as we can >identify what is required easily. I'm happy leaving that to profiles too. In general, I think we should keep requirements on core implementors light. But people are welcome to make more concrete proposals. Trevor
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