Re: [xri] Thoughts on the XRD Signing Method

[Will Norris <will@willnorris.com>]

Nika,

I was actually thinking about something like that as well.  I know W3C  
has a number of examples we can use for testing c14n, but I was  
thinking it might be nice to have some kind of web service that does  
c14n as well as possibly signing for developers to test against.  And  
then my imagination goes crazy and I want to add a step-by-step  
explanation of how the system canonicalized the document... sorta like  
we did with EAUT[0].  Not that I'm volunteering to build this  
system... my time is pretty committed as it is (though I think it  
would be really cool to build).

Short of this though, a really thorough suite of examples should go a  
long way.  I haven't looked at the ones W3C has yet, but I would  
imagine I'll want more.

[0]: http://eaut.org/example/?email=will%40willnorris.com




On Jun 19, 2009, at 9:58 AM, <njones@ouno.com> <njones@ouno.com> wrote:

> All:
>
> I've been working on getting an OAuth library ready for Ouno and one  
> of the
> most important things was finding a tool which would help validate  
> what I
> was doing. I think that same has to be done for whichever XRD signing
> method we choose.
>
> I would agree with Will and others that it doesn't really matter which
> languages the libraries are first written in, however I think  
> xdi.org (or
> xri.net) could host an official validation service that a developer  
> could
> use to build a library. I think that could be the single most  
> important
> thing we do outside of developing the Spec to encourage development.  
> An
> additional benefit to building an ACID3 like testing environment or  
> W3C
> html validator like service is that it would be language agnostic,  
> while
> still helping developers.
>
> Nika
>
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