Re: [xcbf] Discussion document on XCBF spec

[John Larmouth <j.larmouth@salford.ac.uk>]

See my earlier reply.  I am concerned not to have inconsistency. 
Minimum change is to use CXER everywhere, with BASE64-encoded DER.

I will implement that and see if you like the result.

John L


Tyky Aichelen wrote:
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> Me too. I agree with Ed.
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> Best regards,
> Tyky
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>                       Bancroft Scott                                                                                            
>                       <baos@oss.com>           To:       Ed Day <eday@obj-sys.com>                                              
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>                       05/05/2003 12:42         Subject:  Re: [xcbf] Discussion document on XCBF spec                            
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> On Mon, 5 May 2003, Ed Day wrote:
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>>I think given this late date that changes should be kept to a minimum.
>>What is there has already been approved for the most part.  Only a few
>>tweaks describing how the Base64 encoding is to be accomplished should
>>be necessary.  I think any big changes need to be deferred to the next
>>version.
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> I agree with Ed.
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> Bancroft
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>>Regards,
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>>Ed Day
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>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "John Larmouth" <j.larmouth@salford.ac.uk>
>>To: <j.larmouth@salford.ac.uk>
>>Cc: "xcbf" <xcbf@lists.oasis-open.org>
>>Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 4:26 PM
>>Subject: Re: [xcbf] Discussion document on XCBF spec
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>>>To reply to my own message:
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>>>John Larmouth wrote:
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>>>>I understand that you should be getting notification of that upload
>>>>automatically, but it has not come back to *me* yet.
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>>>It still has not come (but I understand that others have got it).
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>>>the person posting the document does not get the noticiation?  But this
>>>is not the first time that OASIS mailings have taken a couple of days
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>>>reach me when others have got them (don't know why - guess the server
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>>>anti-English!).
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>>>>(There is no formal mechanism - even with Amendment 1 in place - to
>>>>formally forbid a HEX encoding.  You can allow a BASE64 encoding as
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>>>>encoder's option, but you cannot express formally that you require
>>>>(only) that to be used instead of HEX.
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>>>I got this wrong - getting too old!  The BASE64 encoding instruction
>>>*does* prohibit use of HEX (otherwise we would have ambiguous
>>>encodings), but it does NOT mandate BASE64 - use of XML mark-up for the
>>>contents is still allowed as an encoders option.
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>>>Sorry for the wrong information.
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>>>(I don't think this affects the main discussion on what we want for
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> XCBF.)
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>>>John L
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