Fwd: comments on SKSML spec

Ken

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From: Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org>
Date: July 24, 2008 11:48:27 PM EDT
To: "ekmi-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org" <ekmi-comment-subscribe@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: comments on SKSML spec

I have not read the spec in detail but I have the following two early comments:

1. The spec refers in numerous places to SOAP 1.1 as a W3C recommendation. SOAP 1.1 was a Member Submission having no specific standing as a W3C product. The W3C Recommendation is SOAP 1.2 where SOAP no longer is an acronym expanding to Simple Object Access Protocol.
a. The SKSML specification should properly reference the SOAP specs. See Recommendations under the Deliverables section at http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/#drafts.
b. The SKSML specification should have a SOAP 1.2 representation. A SOAP 1.1 representation may be an additional part of the spec for legacy applications, but SOAP 1.2 is widely enough adopted (and is included in the WS-I BP 2.0 draft) that it does not make sense to have a new OASIS Standard supporting only SOAP 1.1.

2. This is a specification for key management but there is no explanation of how this relates to the XML Key Management Specification (XKMS) that has been a W3C Recommendation since 28 June 2005. Such an explanation is necessary in order to properly describe where SKSML is to be used vice XKMS. Links to the family of XKMS Recommendations can be found at http://www.w3.org/2001/XKMS/#CurrentWork.

I hope to have the opportunity to read the full SKSML spec in time to submit additional comments.

Ken

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Ken Laskey
MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934
7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379
McLean VA 22102-7508

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Ken Laskey

MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934

7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379

McLean VA 22102-7508

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