> <ALEX>
> True, this is keystore territory, and I don’t think this should venture in 
> that direction – the [sic]
> can be considered clearly out of scope.

Why would it be out of scope?  Seems like this is actually what you might want 
given what you
wrote below...


> However, what would actually make sense would be to offer a configuration 
> option that
> clearly states which of the signature options (and signing material) should 
> be used.
> Clearly the ability to configure this will be needed.

I think I agree here but, if I understand you correctly, wouldn't this be best 
accomplished
via references to keystore keys/certificates?


> If you want to accommodate this,

Actually, I'm just probing the issue.  I was hoping the response was going to 
be "this was discussed
by the working group here: <link to email-thread>" and we could move on.   But 
since that does
not seem to be the case, it would be good for the WG (not me) to decide if we 
want/need to
accommodate this.  What do people think?

Options:
  a) leave as is (and document the shortcoming)
  b) remove signing-options (add back later when ready)
  c) address the issue now

> you probably need to consider another modification to the model:  It is 
> conceivable that there
> could be multiple signers, and different signers might each use a different 
> option.  Therefore, to
> allow for differentiation by signer, you might want to consider introducing a 
> corresponding
> parameter under a list of signers.  (You could even move the configuration 
> parameters into this
> list, although frankly I would opt to keep those parameters global (and the 
> use of the model
> simple), not per-signer.)

True, and potentially a reason to not go with (a) as, with that option, it may 
not
be easy to add in this kind of flexibility later in a backwards-compatible 
manner.


Thanks,
Kent        // shepherd

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