+1

On 01/07/2005, at 8:36 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote:



At 4:44 PM +0900 7/1/05, Martin Duerst wrote:


At 10:26 05/07/01, Paul Hoffman wrote:



To be added near the end of Section 5.1 of atompub-format:

Section 6.5.1 of [W3C.REC-xmldsig-core-20020212] requires support
    for Canonical XML. Atom Processors that sign Atom Documents MUST


 >    use Canonical XML.

The rest of your changes looked reasonable, but the MUST above
looks too strong to me.



Good catch. I think we can make the requirement for canonicalization like we do for encryption and signing: put the onus on the receiver. That would change the wording to:

   Atom Processors that verify signed Atom Documents MUST
   be able to canonicalize with Canonical XML.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium






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