Re: [kmip] Groups - Proposal for Adding Key Value Type to Get.docuploaded

[Sean Turner <turners@ieca.com>]

Robert Haas wrote:
> Indra, All,
> For clarity, instead of overloading the Key Value Type field, what about 
> introducing a distinct "Key Compression Type" field with its own 
> enumeration, both in the Get request and Key Block object? Also, we should 
> consider renaming "Key Value Type" to "Key Format Type", to be more 
> precise.

I could live with these.

> Moreover, if we allow clients to specify under which format they wish to 
> obtain a key (raw, transparent, etc), then should the spec state the 
> following too ?
> 
> - if a client registers a key in a given format/compression, the server 
> must be able to provide it (as a response to Get requests) in at least 
> that same format/compression (that would forbid, for instance, server 
> implementations that take as input a transparent key and only store the 
> flattened raw byte format).
> 
> - any conversion from the original provided format/compression (that came 
> through a Register operation from the client, or from a out-of-band admin 
> operation) to any other format/compression is optional for the server to 
> support.

Yes we should probably include something like this.

spt

> Regards,
> -Robert
> 
> 
> indra.fitzgerald@hp.com wrote on 08/27/2009 05:30:44 PM:
> 
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>> [kmip] Groups - Proposal for Adding Key Value Type to Get.doc uploaded
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>> indra.fitzgerald 
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>> to:
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>> kmip
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>> 08/27/2009 05:30 PM
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>> Proposal for adding Key Value Type to the Get Request Payload.
> 
>> -- Mrs. Indra Fitzgerald
> 
>> The document named Proposal for Adding Key Value Type to Get.doc has 
> been
>> submitted by Mrs. Indra Fitzgerald to the OASIS Key Management
>> Interoperability Protocol (KMIP) TC document repository.
> 
>> Document Description:
>> Proposal for adding Key Value Type to the Get Request Payload.
> 
>> View Document Details:
>> http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/document.php?document_id=33961
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