Hi All,
The Widgets DigSig spec [W-DigSig] has been sitting in PR for over 4
months now, blocked on the Elliptic Curve PAG [ECC-PAG]. AFAICT, this
PAG has just started its unspecified length Fishing Expedition seeking
some unspecified level of funds to pay for some type of analysis that
will take some unknown amount of time to complete ...
Given this, and not wanting to block on the ECC PAG any longer, what are
the options to move widgets-digsig to REC ASAP?
Some options:
1. Replace [XMLSig1.1] dependency with XMLSig 1.0. I presume this would
require a new 3-week LC but the CR could be zero-length, presumably no
re-testing would be required, and the only thing blocking PR->REC is the
length of the new CfE that would be needed.
2. Move the tainted algorithm(s) in XMLSig1.1 to XMLSig1.Next so
XMLSig1.1 is not affected by the PAG and XMLSig1.1 can then continue on
the REC track.
3. Others?
(#2 seems dead simple so I'm probably missing some things.)
-AB
[W-DigSig] http://www.w3.org/TR/widgets-digsig/
[XMLSig1.1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core1/
[ECC-PAG] http://www.w3.org/2011/02/xmlsec-pag-charter.html