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A new OASIS technical committee is being formed. The OASIS Digital
Signature Services Technical Committee (DSS TC) has been proposed by the
following members of OASIS: Robert Zuccherato, Entrust Inc.; Brian
Phelps, Datum; Bill Burr, NIST; Jeremy Epstein, webMethods; and Don
Adams, TIBCO.
The proposal for a new TC meets the requirements of the OASIS TC
Process (see http://oasis-open.org/committees/process.shtml), and is
appended to this message. The proposal, which includes a statement of
purpose, list of deliverables, and proposed schedule, will constitute
the TC's charter. The TC Process allows these items to be clarified
(revised) by the TC members; such clarifications (revisions), as well
as submissions of technology for consideration by the TC and the
beginning of technical discussions, may occur no sooner than the TC's
first meeting.
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OASIS member organization or an Individual member of OASIS; 2) notify
the TC chair, Robert Zuccherato (robert.zuccherato@entrust.com) of your
intent to participate at least 15 days prior to the first meeting; and
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Karl F. Best
OASIS - Director, Technical Operations
+1 978.667.5115 x206
karl.best@oasis-open.org http://www.oasis-open.org
Name of the TC:
OASIS Digital Signature Services Technical Committee (DSS)
Statement of Purpose:
The Digital Signature Services Technical Committee has as its mandate
the development of techniques to support the processing of digital
signatures. This mandate includes defining an interface for
requesting that a web service produce and/or verify a digital
signature on a given piece of data and techniques for proving that a
signature was created within its private key validity period.
The TC will develop a protocol for a digital signature creation web
service. Providing digital signatures via such a web service
facilitates policy-based control of the provision of the signatures.
The TC will also develop a protocol for a centralized digital
signature verification web service that can verify signatures in
relation to a given policy set.
Finally, the TC will develop an XML-based protocol to produce
cryptographic time stamps that can be used for determing whether or
not a signature was created within the associated public key's
validity period or before revocation. This is required as part of the
signature verification algorithm.
More generally there is a need for XML-based techniques for proving
that data existed at a particular point in time. While this more
general problem is not, strictly speaking, within the scope of the TC,
the ability of the proposed solutions to solve this problem will be
considered, as much as possible, while remaining consistent with the
scope of the TC.
Relationship to Existing Activities:
Many efforts related to digital signatures and related technologies
are underway throughout the industry. The following work may be
relevant to this Digital Signature Services TC:
- OASIS Access Control TC (XACML)
- OASIS Rights Language TC (XrML)
- OASIS Security Services TC (SAML)
- OASIS Web Services Security TC (WSSTC)
- W3C XML Signature
- W3C XML Key Management
Technical Committee Deliverables
The new TC will have the following deliverables:
1) an XML-based protocol providing a method or methods of proving that
a private key was used during its validity period,
2) a SOAP binding for the protocol elements in 1),
3) a WS-Security profile for the elements in 1),
4) an interface for a centralized digital signature creation web
service,
5) an interface for a centralized digital signature verification web
service.
Language in Which the TC will Conduct Business
English
Date and Time of the First Meeting
The first meeting will be held by tele-conference on Monday, December
2, 2002. The meeting will start at 1:00 pm Eastern time.
Meeting Schedule for the First Year
The Digital Signature Services TC will meet via bi-weekly conference
call, on a schedule determined by the TC members. The phone call
sponsors will be determined at the initial meeting. Face-to-face
meetings will be held as required.
Names, Affiliation, and Electronic Mail Addresses of members who
support the formation of this TC and are committed to the Meeting
Schedule and Purpose
Robert Zuccherato, Entrust Inc., robert.zuccherato@entrust.com
Brian Phelps, Datum, bphelps@datum.com
Bill Burr, NIST, william.burr@nist.gov
Jeremy Epstein, webMethods, jepstein@webmethods.com
Don Adams, TIBCO, dadams@tibco.com
Chair
The Digital Signature Services TC Chair will be Robert Zuccherato,
Entrust Inc.
Meeting Sponsors
Robert Zuccherato, Entrust Inc., will sponsor the first meeting.
Sponsorship of subsequent TC meetings, whether in person or conference
calls, will be determined by the TC membership.
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