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This is the first public requirements NOTE produced by the IETF/W3C XML-Signature Working Group. It is based on the Charter [Charter], XML-Signature Workshop [WS], Brown's IETF draft [Brown] and mailing list discussion. This draft will be published prior to the June 25 IETF deadline for consideration at the IETF in Oslo as an IETF-draft and W3C Note.
This document does not necessarily represent the working group's consensus on a finished document; it also includes contrary positions (or alternative wordings) in order to elicit review and discussion. Positions which are potentially in conflict are specified as a list of lettered points. For example:
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The following documents are not necessarily related to XML Signature, but are interesting examples of other WG requirements documents.
This document lists the design principles, scope and requirements for the XML Digital Signature specification.
The XML 1.0 Recommendation [XML] describes the syntax of a class of data objects called XML documents. The mission of this working group is to develop an XML compliant syntax used for representing signatures on Web resources and portions of protocol messages (anything referencable by a URI) and procedures for computing and verifying such signatures. Such signatures will be able to provide data integrity, authentication, and/or non-repudiatability
The XML Signature specification should meet the requirements of the following applications:
The XML Signature specification must be reviewed by the following W3C communities:
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html
http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-brown-xml-dsig-00.txt
http://www.w3.org/1999/05/XML-DSig-charter-990521.html
http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hiroshi-dom-hash-01.txt
http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-xml-infoset-req
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-trade-iotp-v1.0-dsig-00.txt
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-ietf-xmldsig/
http://www.w3.org/DSig/signed-XML99/
http://www.w3.org/DSig/signed-XML99/summary.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xlink
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/
http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xptr