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Subject: Re: FW: Proposed charter for OASIS EKMI TC
The key words in the XKMS mission are "protocols for distributing and registering *public* keys", Ken. In the initial implementation, EKMI is primarily focused on key-management of *symmetric* keys with the Symmetric Key-Management Services Markup Language (SKSML). Over time, we do envision that EKMI will evolve to serve public-keys too, and at that time, it is likely that the EKMI-TC will use XKMS just as it uses XML Signature and XML Encryption today. I hope that addresses your question. Arshad Noor StrongAuth, Inc. Ken Laskey wrote: ---------------------- Subject: Fwd: [members] FW: Proposed charter for OASIS EKMI TC * From: Ken Laskey <klaskey@mitre.org> * To: oasis-charter-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org * Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:50:00 -0500 The proposed charter notes > The proposers are unaware of any similar work being carried on in > this exact area. However, this TC intends to leverage the > products of, and seek liaison with, a number of other existing > projects that may interoperate with or provide functionality to the > EKMI TC's planned outputs, including: > > OASIS Web Services Security TC > W3C XMLSignature and XMLEncryption protocols and working group > OASIS Digital Signature Services TC > OASIS Public Key Infrastructure TC > OASIS XACML TC (and other methods for providing granular > access-control permissions that may be consumed or enforced by > symmetic key management) > However, it does not reference XML Key Management Specification (XKMS 2.0) which became W3C Recommendation 28 June 2005. (See http://www.w3.org/TR/xkms2/.) The introduction of that Recommendation notes, "This document specifies protocols for distributing and registering public keys, suitable for use in conjunction with the standard for XML Signatures [XML-SIG] defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and companion standard for XML encryption [XML-ENC]. The XML Key Management Specification (XKMS) comprises two parts -- the XML Key Information Service Specification (X-KISS) and the XML Key Registration Service Specification (X-KRSS)." How does XKMS relate to the intended work? Ken ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ken Laskey MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934 7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379 McLean VA 22102-7508 ----------------------
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