Indication of Intent / Commitment type

["Nick Pope" <pope@secstan.com>]

Dallas, Ed, DSS members,

Dallas - You had suggested the Indication of Intent as a parameter of the
proposed Entity Seal profile.  At the discussion today there was the
suggestion that the XAdES CommitmentType property was appropriate.  This has
similar semantics is also more controlled in that the semantics needs to be
registered through an object identifier.

There was also the suggestion that the CommitmentType was more appriately
part of the general "Signature Policy" which can bring together properties
and parameters of the signature (e.g. algorithms & key size) with a
commitment type.

It was questioned whether this area was premature for standardisation.

Ed - You mentioend an earlier discussion on this topic.  I couldn't find
anything specific around this area.  Only reference to Commitment type was
in a message dated: Wed 14/05/2003 13:44 which was around the relationship
between core and profile.  Can you help?

DSS Members - Do I represent the discussion correctly?  Any further
thoughts?

Nick