The mission of this working group is to perform limited maintenance work on the basic XML Security specifications, and suggest a charter for further work.
Join the XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group!
End date | 31 December 2007 |
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Confidentiality | See Confidentiality and Communication |
Initial Chair | Frederick Hirsch, Nokia |
Initial Team Contact (FTE %: 25) |
Thomas Roessler |
Usual Meeting Schedule | Face-to-face meetings: between 1 and 3 Teleconferences: weekly |
Past W3C security work was focused on foundation technologies: The joint IETF-W3C XML Signature Working Group specified mechanisms to digitally sign XML documents and other data, and to encapsulate digital signatures in XML. The W3C XML Encryption Working Group specified mechanisms to encrypt XML documents and other data, and to encapsulate the encrypted material and related meta-information in XML.
Canonical XML
1.0 is required for implementations of the XML Signature
Syntax and Processing Recommendation. The XML Core Working
Group is chartered to revise Canonical XML, and is publishing the result
as Canonical XML 1.1. This version of Canonical XML will address
incompatibilities between that specification and the xml:id and xml:base
Recommendations, and possible future attributes in the xml
namespace. It is also known that the Decryption Transform for XML
Signature Recommendation includes processing of
xml
namespace attributes that is analogous to that in Canonical
XML 1.0, and leads to similar issues.
This Working Group is chartered to update the XML Signature Syntax and Processing Recommendation and the Decryption Transform for XML Signature Recommendation to be compatible with the evolving XML environment. The update will also take known errata into account. These include the XML Signature Errata and the Decryption Transform Errata.
The Working Group is also chartered to collect and study additional issues with the XML Encryption and XML Signature suite of specifications, and to propose a draft charter for work to address these issues.
For both of these documents, the Working Group MUST demonstrate that any changes that affect conformance of implementations are necessary to accommodate either Canonical XML 1.1, or otherwise address incompatibilities with the evolving XML environment.
This group is chartered until 31 December 2007. The group will hold weekly telephone conferences of one hour. The group will hold at least one face-to-face meeting, and at most three face-to-face meetings. The group may hold one of these meetings as a workshop open to the public to gather community input on directions for further work on the XML security specifications.
The Working Group is expected to do early interoperability testing, and will require participation by implementers.
The following is a tentative list of external bodies that the Working Group should collaborate with:
Information about the XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group is available from the Working Group Home Page. This group primarily conducts its work on the public mailing list public-xmlsec-maintwg@w3.org (archive). The group will use the Member-only mailing list member-xmlsec-maintwg@w3.org (archive) for communications with W3C Member-only groups and for administrative purposes.
This Working Group operates under the W3C Patent Policy (5 February 2004 Version). To promote the widest adoption of Web standards, W3C seeks to issue Recommendations that can be implemented, according to this policy, on a Royalty-Free basis.
For more information about disclosure obligations for this group, please see the W3C Patent Policy Implementation.
This charter has been created according to section 6.2 of the Process Document. In the event of a conflict between this document or the provisions of any charter and the W3C Process, the W3C Process shall take precedence.
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