meeting minutes: 21-Mar-05

[Glenn.Benson@chase.com]

DSS Teleconference Minutes
Minutes: Glenn Benson

Date:  Monday, 21 March 2005
Time:  12:00pm - 01:00pm ET

Voting Members in Attendance:

Hal Lockhart, BEA Systems
Pieter Kasselman, Betrusted
Krishna Yellepeddy, IBM
Andreas Kuehne, Individual
Trevor Perrin, Individual
Nick Pope, Individual
Glenn Benson, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Dimitri Andivahis, Surety
Ed Shallow, Universal Postal Union


1. Welcome by chair (Nick Pope)

2. Confirm conference call minute taker (Glenn Benson)
Agreed.

3. Roll Call
See above

4. Approval of agenda
Approved

5. Approval of minutes of 28th Feb 05
Approved per modifications by Nick Pope (corrected date and clarified
actions).

6. Outstanding Actions
See below

7. Upcoming Profiles
- Signature gateway profile (Glenn)

Proposed changes to profile:
 o single document with one abstract and two concrete identifiers:
 o Identifier should only reference the major version number
 o Additional concrete profiles may be made by either extending
 current document, or adding new documents

Status of proposal: Agreement by voting members

Action 05-03-21-1 : Glenn update Signature gateway profile to includes
changes.

Potential profile on nested time-stamps (Dimitri)

The meeting agreed that optional elements for nested timestamps could be
added as an option within the DSS Timestampign profile taking into account
comments agreed at the previous meeting.

Action 05-03-21-2: Dimitry update optional nested timestamps extension to
time-stamping profile (revision to action 05-02-28-03)


- Reports regarding any progress on other profiles

Nick mentioned ongoing discussion in the legal XML group
Concerning the possibility of including DSS signature services in their
court filing protocols currently being developed.


8. Interoperability testing

Ed presented the ongoing results of interopability testing.  This is to
include exchange of XML and CMS based signatures.  Also, tests are to be
carried out between DSS Client & Server Implementations using email to
transport HTTP requests / responses.  It was agreed that this was
reasonable means of exercising interopability without having to overcome
communications problems.

Some errors were found in the core as result of the interopability testing.
It was requested that this be posted to the list for discussion.

Action 05-03-21-3: Juan Carlos submit to DSS list errors found in carrying
out interoperability testing


9. Date of Next meeting. Proposal for 4th April, 2005.
Agreed

10. Any other business

10.1 Public Comments

A further comment had been submitted by Antonio covering:
 - specification of enveloping and the possible need for an new schema
element (ObjectId?).
 - IPR issues

In addition two comments were submtted by Konrad Lanz.

The chair requested firstly that the Editor of the Core TC consider
technical comments on the DSS Core:

Action 05-03-21-4: Trevor / All review public comments on DSS core by
Konrad
Lanz [Konrad.Lanz@labs.cio.gv.at] and technmical comment by Antonio
[arm@dif.um.es] both on Mon 21/03/2005.

Action 05-03-21-5: All: Consider IPR issue raised in public comment by
Antonio on Mon 21/03/2005.

10.2 IPR Issue

Ed asked about the status of the request by UPU to remove the IPR statement
made last year.

Action 05-03-21-6: Nick inquire with OASIS status of request from UPU to
remove IPR statement.

10.3 Handling of comments on CDs

The chair suggested that as a number of comments were being made on the DSS
core and profiles, both as a result of the Interop and public comments, and
that a system will be needed to track the resolution of these comments and
their incorporation in revisions to the CD specifications.  Specific
proposals will be made by the chairs to the group at the next meeting.

Action 05-03-21-7: Nick & Juan Carlos consider how the resolution of
comments on CD specs can be tracked.



11. Close

Outstanding Actions

ACTION - 05-10-03 (should be 05-01-10-03)  [Juan Carlos, Ed] Discuss in
more detained plans on the list and start generating an inter-op and
testing document that records what is intended to be done, specify any meta
data agreed, recoded decisions; parameters used, test vectors, etc.  [Also,
see 05-03-21-3 for a related action item].

on going ACTION - 05-02-07-01 [Trevor] Add section on upcoming Profiles to
Roadmap Document.

on going ACTION - 05-02-07-02 [All Profile Editors] Read Roadmap Document
and provide comments.

ACTION - 05-02-07-03 [Glenn] Submit Signature Gateway Profile document with
abstract and concrete profiles.

See above: Action closed, but new action assigned

ACTION - 05-02-28-01 - Juan Carlos to post URL to list for information on
XKI

On going ACTION  - 05-02-28-03 - Dimitri to post text to the list on
extended time-stamping, TC to review contribution, before next call.

See above