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Subject: Re: [xri] Summary on trust/KeyInfo issues
<xrd> <Subject set="beginswith">...</Subject> <Alias>...</Alias> <KeyDescriptor use="*"> <ds:KeyInfo> ... </ds:KeyInfo> </KeyDescriptor> <ds:Signature> <ds:KeyInfo> ... </ds:KeyInfo> </ds:Signature> <link> <rel>...</rel> <uri>...</uri> <Subject>...</Subject> <ds:KeyInfo> ... </ds:KeyInfo> </link> </xrd> Descriptionxrd/Subject : Type=URI. Subject Identifier or portion of Subject Identifier. CanonicalID in XRDS. xrd/Subject/@set : (Option) Can specify “beginswith” to signify that the URI is only partial and beginswith the string. xrd/Alias: Alias URI for the Subject. xrd/KeyDescriptor: Wrapper element for ds:KeyInfo for the Subject. xrd/KeyDescriptor/@use : Specify the usage of the KeyInfo, e.g., Signature, Encription, etc. xrd/ds:Signature: Expresses the Signatory and the Signature over this XRD. xrd/link: Shows the relationship that this Subject perceives against other subject. xrd/link/Subjct: the Subject of the linked XRD. Discussion Points
Scott Cantor wrote: Nat Sakimura wrote on 2009-07-17:In today's con-call, I think there were three types of keys to be expressed in XRD. (1) Key of the Subject (2) Key of the Signatory (3) Key of the linked XRD.Right. I just needed to clarify which key (3) was referencing.[1] Needs to be explicit...is it the signer of the linked XRD whose keyisbeing expressed in the link or the *subject* of the linked XRD?I think it should be the signer (signatory).That's fine, I just wanted to make sure we were clear on it.Perhaps we can express both Key and Subject in the link, so that it will look like:Doesn't seem like a problem to combine the two features to me. -- Scott |
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