RE: [wss] Issue 196 QNames: Proposal to use URIs for Type identifiers

["David Orchard" <dorchard@bea.com>]

They are hypothetical URIs.  The dereferencability of them (or lack thereof)
in no way impacts the ability to do comparisons using them.

Cheers,
Dave

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kefeng Chen [mailto:KefengC@geotrust.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 8:27 AM
> To: 'David Orchard'; wss@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: RE: [wss] Issue 196 QNames: Proposal to use URIs for Type
> identifiers
>
>
> Can you check the URI?
> All of them gave me "Resuource not found" error.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kefeng
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Orchard [mailto:dorchard@bea.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 11:07 AM
> To: wss@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [wss] Issue 196 QNames: Proposal to use URIs for Type
> identifiers
>
>
> This proposes to use URIs instead of QNames for valuetype and
> encoding type
> identifiers.  Rather than provide a mapping to URIs,
> potentially at a later
> date, the use of URIs should result in cleaner and more
> secure environments.
>
> The first part of this proposal is that valueTypeEnum should
> be of type URI.
> The WSSE specification defines 5 values for this URI,
> replacing the current
> QNames.  The URI for identifying these types could be constructed in a
> variety of ways.
>
> The following shows identifiers using the fragment identifier
> syntax.  For
> the valuetypeenums, this looks like (pending the actual URI
> assigned for the
> wsse namespace):
> http://www.oasis-open.org/wsseuri#X509v3
> http://www.oasis-open.org/wsseuri#Kerberosv5TGT
> http://www.oasis-open.org/wsseuri#5ST
> http://www.oasis-open.org/wsseuri#PKCS7
> http://www.oasis-open.org/wsseuri#PKIPath
>
> And for encoding types this is:
> http://www.oasis-open.org/wsseuri#Base64Binary
> http://www.oasis-open/org/wsseuri#HexBinary
>
> This might also require a simple change to the schema to add
> these IDs to
> the schema.
>
> This could easily be a "/" separator instead of "#" as well.
> The # would
> definitely be a good way to go if there was a wsse media
> type.  But there
> isn't, so "/" could also be acceptable.
>
> Cheers,
> Dave
>
>
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