Re: Assertion Validation Service

["Eve L. Maler" <eve.maler@east.sun.com>]

At 04:17 PM 4/13/01 -0400, Hal Lockhart wrote:
>I have not been involved with XKMS. Perhaps it is destined to be swiftly
>ratified with little or no modification. That would eliminate the problem.
>Can anyone comment on this?

There is no such thing as a W3C "ratification" process.  If XKMS gets 
accepted by the membership and staff as a useful work item, a working group 
would be created.  SOAP is an example of this process at work.  SOAP was 
submitted as a Note, and then the XML Protocol group was started to 
generate a spec centered on SOAP.  The XMLP group is a huge effort (about 
as large as ours) that has gone back to do a requirements phase all over again.

If we want to point to XKMS-or-its-successor, we'd do better to point to 
the Note if we want stability.

         Eve
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