RE: [xri] Thoughts on the XRD Signing Method

["Drummond Reed" <drummond.reed@cordance.net>]

+++1.

I think this is a great idea -- the kind of effort that underlies broad
adoption.

Figuring out how to get the resources to do this the right way is the
challenge. I'll cook on this.

=Drummond 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Will Norris [mailto:will@willnorris.com]
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 10:09 AM
> To: OASIS XRI TC
> Subject: Re: [xri] Thoughts on the XRD Signing Method
> 
> 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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