On Tue, 2011-12-13 at 13:14 -0500, Arthur Barstow wrote: > Hi All, > > The Widgets DigSig spec [W-DigSig] has been sitting in PR for over 4 > months now, blocked on the Elliptic Curve PAG [ECC-PAG]. AFAICT, this > PAG has just started its unspecified length Fishing Expedition seeking > some unspecified level of funds to pay for some type of analysis that > will take some unknown amount of time to complete ... > > Given this, and not wanting to block on the ECC PAG any longer, what are > the options to move widgets-digsig to REC ASAP? > > Some options: > > 1. Replace [XMLSig1.1] dependency with XMLSig 1.0. I presume this would > require a new 3-week LC but the CR could be zero-length, presumably no > re-testing would be required, and the only thing blocking PR->REC is the > length of the new CfE that would be needed. > > 2. Move the tainted algorithm(s) in XMLSig1.1 to XMLSig1.Next so > XMLSig1.1 is not affected by the PAG and XMLSig1.1 can then continue on > the REC track. > > 3. Others?
An other one was for the Director to decide to move the document forward anyway because W-DigSig doesn't depend on ECC. Thomas, any suggestion? Philippe
