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XKMS Pre-CR implementation intentions

1. X-KISS

1.1 Message processing mechanis

xmlsec Guillermo Alvaro Rich Salz Entrust Phaos Tommy Lindberg SQLData Total
Synchronous response yes yes yes yes yes yes yes 7
Asynchronous response no yes no no yes yes no 3
Two-phase protocols no yes no no yes yes yes 8

1.2 Message syntax

xmlsec Guillermo Alvaro Rich Salz Entrust Phaos Tommy Lindberg SQLData Total
Compound requests yes yes no no yes likely no 3
Status requests yes yes yes no yes yes no 5

1.3 Services

xmlsec Guillermo Alvaro Rich Salz Entrust Phaos Tommy Lindberg SQLData Total
Locate yes yes ? no yes yes yes 5
Validate yes yes yes yes yes yes yes 7

2. X-KRSS

2.1 Message processing mechanism

xmlsec Guillermo Alvaro Rich Salz Entrust Phaos Tommy Lindberg SQLData Total
Synchronous response no yes no no yes yes yes 4
Asynchronous response no yes no no maybe yes no 2 <--
Two-phase protocols no yes no no maybe yes yes 3

2.2 Message syntax

xmlsec Guillermo Alvaro Rich Salz Entrust Phaos Tommy Lindberg SQLData Total
Compound requests no yes no no yes likely no 2
Status requests no yes no no yes yes no 3

2.3 Services

xmlsec Guillermo Alvaro Rich Salz Entrust Phaos Tommy Lindberg SQLData Total
Register no yes no no yes yes yes 4
Reissue no yes no no yes yes yes 4
Revoke no yes no no yes yes yes 4
Recover no yes no no yes yes yes 4

3. Bindings

xmlsec Guillermo Alvaro Rich Salz Entrust Phaos Tommy Lindberg SQLData Total
Plain HTTP yes yes yes yes yes yes
Soap/1.1 yes yes yes yes yes yes
Soap/1.2 yes yes yes would need time

to switch to it

 yes yes yes 6
Payload

authentication

 probably later yes no yes yes yes 4
TLS bindings no later yes no yes yes yes (with SOAP payload) 4

4. Estimated time

xmlsec Guillermo Alvaro Rich Salz Entrust Phaos Tommy Lindberg SQLData Total
Estimated time April 04 (1-1.5 m.) Aug 04 (6 m.) 2q04 (Aug 04)

X-KISS public service

is now available

(using Soap/1.1)

 We expect to have a complete message generation/parsing library ready in

4-6 weeks (Mar/Apr 04) followed by a XKMS Client and Responder by

May/June 04. (4 m.)

 6 months Compound requests and asynchronous request will be supported in the nextrelease.

We have a live test service at http://soapclient.com/xml/xkms2 for interoperability tests. Authentication information is available at http://sqldata.com/xkms.htm.

 4-6 m.
6 months

seems ok.

Jose Kahan, W3C Team Contact for the XKMS Working Group
Last updated: $Date: 2004/04/05 17:23:18 $