At 10:26 05/07/01, Paul Hoffman wrote:
>To be added near the end of Section 5.1 of atompub-format:
>
> Section 6.5.1 of [W3C.REC-xmldsig-core-20020212] requires support
> for Canonical XML. Atom Processors that sign Atom Documents MUST
> use Canonical XML.
Hello Paul,
The rest of your changes looked reasonable, but the MUST above
looks too strong to me. What about something like
"Atom Processors that sign Atom Documents MUST support the use
of Canonical XML." or even
"Atom Processors that sign Atom Documents MUST use Canonical XML
by default; they MAY use other canonicalizations at user request."
The reason for this is to make sure we have interoperability
with a mandatory-to-implement (and default-to-use) canonicalization,
but that we don't disallow other canonicalizations that for one
or the other as of now not yet clear reason may be preferable in
some cases in the future (but in your wording would prohibit
the result to be called Atom at all).
Regards, Martin.
