At 9:41 PM -0700 7/4/05, Tim Bray wrote:
On Jul 4, 2005, at 7:38 PM, Bob Wyman wrote:
I believe it would be very useful to specify that signed entries
should include a source element. This can/should be considered
part of entry canonicalization.
-1. Leave it to the market. I suspect that you're right, but I'd
be unsurprised if an application for signed un-sourced applications
turned up. -Tim
I'm with Tim on the -1. Bob's suggestion and explanation make good
sense for the implementer's guide, but not for the base spec. There
is not an interoperability issue that I can see for entries without
sources being signed.
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