Netscape currently deploys products supporting PKI infrastructures for authentication, authorization, and privacy. We view Signed XML as a way to expand the users of PKI's, adding to the critical mass of users needed to support broad base deployment of PKI.
As such we are most interested in the Signed XML group accomplishing the following tasks:
There has been a lot of work invested in building public key infrastructures in the
last several years, and the Signed XML group can decrease its deployment time by
leveraging that work.