INitial comments to Andrea's document on DSS Quickstart guide

[Juan Carlos Cruellas <cruellas@ac.upc.edu>]

Hi Andreas,

I have had the chance to take a look to your document. I think it is 
pretty good and worthwhile to produce!...I have somecomments:

1. In terms of the structure, I like the idea of starting with CMS 
generation request. As you say, it is simpler than XML Sig...but then, I 
would propose that clause 2 is the clause where you show how a client 
would request the validation of a CMS signature. This would have two 
advantages in my opinion: it would close the circle (readers could see 
how DSS actually serves to both purposes), and it would certainly show 
that for CMS things are pretty stratightforward.

2. In terms of XML, what about also starting with a very very basic 
example covering both the generation (documenthash, almost anything 
else, dettached XML sig) and validation requests. Then the document 
could incrementally increase the complexity of the requests for covering 
other ways of transmitting the tobesigned documents, the reqeusts of 
enveloping signatures and the requests for enveloped signatures, and 
even the requests of a signature on multiple documents or even different 
parts of the same document...

3. Going deep in the details, I would say that the sentence below is not 
complete:
"The
resultminor:valid:signature:OnAllDocuments constant ensures that all 
documents (even if there is just a hash of a single document, as we 
supplied it with our sample request)."

Note that the "ensures that all documents" part does not have a conclusion

Regards

Juan Carlos.