Internet Draft XML - Signature Syntax and Processing February

Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This specification is a last call Working Draft of the IETF/W3C XML Signature Working Group. The Working Group invites review from the IETF community, W3C members, and other interested parties. This last call serves as a statement that the Working Group believes that the specification satisfies the relevant terms of the charter and requirements document. last call should substantially overlap but may not exactly coincide with this period. Subsequently, the Working Group plans to issue a specification that addresses any comments resulting from the review and propose it as a W3C Candidate Recommendation and IETF Proposed Standard. This document continues to be a draft document and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. While the Working Group feels the design meets our requirements we especially welcome comments on the following topics: security concerns, URI/IDREF usage, XPath, DTD/schema specification, and implementation experience. Please send comments to the editors and cc: the list . Publication as a Working Draft does not imply endorsement by the W3C membership or IESG. It is inappropriate to cite W3C Drafts as other than "work in progress." A list of current W3C working drafts can be found at Abstract This document specifies XML digital signature processing rules and syntax. XML Signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and/or signer authentication services for data of any type, whether located within the XML that includes the signature or elsewhere.