On Jun 22, 2005, at 12:03 PM, James M Snell wrote:
I'm planning to write a separate Internet-Draft that discusses digital signing of Atom feeds and entries. Some parts of that document will includes mandates; other parts will include recommendations. We can describe for entry producers a way of producing signed entries that can be aggregated with original signatures in tact and a set of recommendations to aggregators that wish to pass those signed entries around with signatures in tact. Sure, it's all up to the aggregators and content providers to decide whether or not they want to support those methods -- which is the whole point of I'm working on this as a separate I-D and positioning it as an optional extension to Atom. :-)
A man who spots a problem, then volunteers to do the work around fixing it! We need more like that. I suspect that there's an excellent chance that this might become a WG draft, but I remained concerned about our lack of hands-on experience. -Tim
