Re: [xri] Very rough algorithm outline

[Nat Sakimura <n-sakimura@nri.co.jp>]

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From: "Scott Cantor" <cantor.2@osu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:32 AM
To: "'Drummond Reed'" <drummond.reed@cordance.net>; "'XRI TC'" 
<xri@lists.oasis-open.org>
Subject: RE: [xri] Very rough algorithm outline

> Drummond Reed wrote on 2009-06-17:
>> I will put it on the agenda for tomorrow's telecon. Again, I urge 
>> everyone
>> concerned with this issue to attend, including Scott if he can make it.
>
> I'm at a conference that I drove 7 hours (and begged funding) to attend, 
> so
> I would say the likihood I'll be getting on the phone to argue about this
> is....low.
>
> I do not really believe that people are looking at this problem from a
> suitably constrained perspective. Arguing about whether you can implement
> XML Signature (or maybe I should say c14n) in Ruby is beside the point. 
> The
> question is whether you can write code to serialize XML with some strict
> namespace logic.
>
> The goal is to be compatible with the full excl c14n spec, not to require
> implementing it. I don't feel certain that this distinction has been 
> getting
> across.

Probably not.

But then, would it not mean that we start copy & pasting the spec?

Actually, I am fine either way as long as there are competent libraries.

>
> With respect to interop, if you write some code and want to be sure it's
> correct, there are plenty of test vectors and Java/C++ implementations to
> use to compare against. I would completely agree that absent that step, 
> the
> effort is likely wasted.
>
> -- Scott
>
>
>
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