Well, we did, Chris.
Did you also forget that you were supposed to provide a Transform XPath to
exclude all actor=next?
What do you think of mine? Will it work?
David.
-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Ferris [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 10:58 AM
To: David Fischer
Cc: Doug Bunting; ebXML Msg
Subject: Re: [ebxml-msg] ds:Signature Algorithm
I don't recall a decision to exclude all Signatures.
Cheers,
Chris
David Fischer wrote:
> Yes, I know, there are good cases for both separate signatures and for signing
> over previous signatures.
>
> We decided to exclude all signatures two con calls ago when we could not
figure
> out how to add a signature without breaking a previous signature (how do you
> know which signature to process first and then you must exclude the later
> signatures when processing the earlier ones). We decided NOT to discuss, in
the
> spec, the use of multiple signatures.
>
> As with all things in this group, nothing is final ;-^.
>
> Regards,
>
> David Fischer
> Drummond Group.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Bunting [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2001 5:17 PM
> To: ebXML Msg
> Subject: Re: [ebxml-msg] ds:Signature Algorithm
>
>
> David,
>
> Are we really deciding to exclude ALL signature elements? I can see some
> very good use cases (validating someone else's signature for example) for
> signing a previous signature.
>
> Separately, when was that decision made?
>
> thanx,
> doug
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Fischer" <>
> To: "Christopher Ferris (E-mail)" <>
> Cc: "ebXML Msg" <>
> Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2001 15:04
> Subject: [ebxml-msg] ds:Signature Algorithm
>
>
> Chris,
>
> Since we are deciding to exclude ALL signature elements, shouldn't we get
> rid of the
> http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#enveloped-signature algorithm and just
> use:
>
> <XPath> not(ancestor-or-self::ds:Signature) </XPath>
>
> which would exclude ALL ds:Signature elements? Or better yet:
>
> <XPath> not(ancestor-or-self::ds:Signature |
> ancestor-or-self::*[@soap:actor="http://oasis-open.org/committees/
> ebxml-msg/nextMSH"] |
> ancestor-or-self::*[@soap:actor="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap
> /actor/next" ] )
> </XPath>
>
> Regards,
>
> David Fischer
> Drummond Group.
>
>
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