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Subject: RE: [xri] Thoughts on the XRD Signing Method


Ouno would be willing to provide the initial development for such a tool.
We are releasing an OAuth tool that may have similar functionality.

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:34:37 -0700, "Drummond Reed"
<drummond.reed@cordance.net> wrote:
> +++1.
> 
> I think this is a great idea -- the kind of effort that underlies broad
> adoption.
> 
> Figuring out how to get the resources to do this the right way is the
> challenge. I'll cook on this.
> 
> =Drummond 
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Will Norris [mailto:will@willnorris.com]
>> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:09 AM
>> To: OASIS XRI TC
>> Subject: Re: [xri] Thoughts on the XRD Signing Method
>> 
>> Nika,
>> 
>> I was actually thinking about something like that as well.  I know W3C
>> has a number of examples we can use for testing c14n, but I was
>> thinking it might be nice to have some kind of web service that does
>> c14n as well as possibly signing for developers to test against.  And
>> then my imagination goes crazy and I want to add a step-by-step
>> explanation of how the system canonicalized the document... sorta like
>> we did with EAUT[0].  Not that I'm volunteering to build this
>> system... my time is pretty committed as it is (though I think it
>> would be really cool to build).
>> 
>> Short of this though, a really thorough suite of examples should go a
>> long way.  I haven't looked at the ones W3C has yet, but I would
>> imagine I'll want more.
>> 
>> [0]: http://eaut.org/example/?email=will%40willnorris.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 9:58 AM, <njones@ouno.com> <njones@ouno.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > All:
>> >
>> > I've been working on getting an OAuth library ready for Ouno and one
>> > of the
>> > most important things was finding a tool which would help validate
>> > what I
>> > was doing. I think that same has to be done for whichever XRD signing
>> > method we choose.
>> >
>> > I would agree with Will and others that it doesn't really matter which
>> > languages the libraries are first written in, however I think
>> > xdi.org (or
>> > xri.net) could host an official validation service that a developer
>> > could
>> > use to build a library. I think that could be the single most
>> > important
>> > thing we do outside of developing the Spec to encourage development.
>> > An
>> > additional benefit to building an ACID3 like testing environment or
>> > W3C
>> > html validator like service is that it would be language agnostic,
>> > while
>> > still helping developers.
>> >
>> > Nika
>> >
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