Below is a request to the WebApps WG for comments on 3 LCWDs produced
by the XML Security WG:
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This is a first Last Call for XML Encryption and Generic Hybrid
Ciphers specifications.
This is a second Last Call for XML Signature 1.1, with the only
substantive changes being the result of Last Call feedback, as noted
in the status section of that document.
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The comment deadline is June 11 and comments should be sent to:
public-xml...@w3.org
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xmlsec/
-Art Barstow
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Hirsch Frederick (Nokia-CIC/Boston)"
<frederick.hir...@nokia.com>
Date: May 17, 2010 10:48:05 AM EDT
To: "cha...@w3.org" <cha...@w3.org>
Cc: "Hirsch Frederick (Nokia-CIC/Boston)"
<frederick.hir...@nokia.com>, "t...@w3.org" <t...@w3.org>
Subject: Transition Announcement: Last Call WD of XML Encryption
1.1, XML Security Generic Hybrid Ciphers and XML Signature 1.1
Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/3DDBC759-
e95c-4935-96be-1464cbc4e...@nokia.com>
1) This is a Last Call Working Draft transition announcement for
three Recommendation track specifications.
This is a first Last Call for XML Encryption and Generic Hybrid
Ciphers specifications. This is a second Last Call for XML
Signature 1.1, with the only substantive changes being the result
of Last Call feedback, as noted in the status section of that
document.
(2) Document title, URIs.
2a) XML Encryption Syntax and Processing Version 1.1
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlenc-core1-20100513/
2b) XML Security Generic Hybrid Ciphers
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlsec-generic-hybrid-20100513/
2c) XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmldsig-core1-20100513/
(3) Instructions for providing feedback.
If you wish to make comments regarding these documents, please send
them to public-xml...@w3.org. The list is archived at http://
lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xmlsec/
(4) Review end date.
This Last Call period is for four weeks and will end 10 June 2010.
(5) A reference to the group's decision to make this transition.
The XML Security agreed to making this Last Call transition at its
teleconference on 11 May 2010, see http://www.w3.org/2010/05/11-
xmlsec-minutes.html#item06
(6) Evidence that the document satisfies group's requirements.
Include a link to requirements
The XML Security Working Group believe this document satisfies the
XML Encryption and XML Signature requirements as outlined in the
XML Security 1.1 Requirements and Design Considerations document,
see http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlsec-reqs-20100204/
(7) The names of groups with dependencies, explicitly inviting
review from them.
7a) Web Applications Working Group (WebApps), http://www.w3.org/
2008/webapps/
The Web Applications Working Group " Digital Signatures for
Widgets" specification has a dependency on XML Signature 1.1,
however the
substantive changes in XML Signature 1.1 are for features not used
by that specification ( http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-widgets-
digsig-20100511/
). The XML Security Working Group requests review from the Web
Applications WG of the XML Signature 1.1 Last Call specification,
7b) Efficient XML Interchange Working Group (EXI), http://
www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
The XML Security WG has made changes to the XML Encryption 1.1
specification to clarify use with EXI formats. The XML Security
Working Group requests EXI WG review of XML Encryption 1.1 Last
Call specification.
(8) Report of any Formal Objections
The Working Group has received no formal objections.
The Working Group has noted the following in the Status of the
Document in XML Signature 1.1 and XML Encryption 1.1:
"This Last Call Working Draft includes the ECDSAwithSHA256
signature algorithm, which is ECDSA over the P-256 prime curve
specified in Section D.2.3 of FIPS 186-3 [FIPS-186-3] (and using
the SHA-256 hash algorithm), as a mandatory to implement algorithm.
The Working Group may request transition to Candidate
Recommendation with this feature marked as "at risk". If issues
about deployment of this feature are raised during Candidate
Recommendation, the group may elect to make this feature optional."
(9) A link to a patent disclosure page.
http://www.w3.org/2004/01/pp-impl/42458/status
The WG is also publishing an update to the "XML Security Algorithm
Cross-Reference", intended to become a Working Group Note, http://
www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlsec-algorithms-20100513/
.
regards, Frederick
Frederick Hirsch, Nokia
Chair XML Security WG
