Re: [dss] ANSI X9.95 and timestamping profile

[Trevor Perrin <trevp@trevp.net>]

At 06:14 PM 11/29/2004 -0500, Dimitri Andivahis wrote:
>The ANSI X9.95 timestamping document describes a process
>for a requestor to renew an existing timestamp token for a given document.
>As part of it, the requestor submits a timestamp request to the TSA
>for the given document and includes (in a request extension)
>the previously issued timestamp token.  The new timestamp token issued
>by the timestamping service encapsulates the previously issued timestamp
>token by including it in an extension of the TSTInfo.
[...]

>I was wondering though if support for the mechanics of timestamp renewal
>should be folded into the timestamping profile itself, since it appears
>to be a generic enough operation for all types of timestamp tokens.

A client can request a timestamp on some input documents which include an 
older timestamp.  So I think we already support that?


Trevor