Actually the proposal is to merge my proposal with the ni scheme made by Stephen et. al.
I generally recon that if two independent proposals converge on essentially the same thing it probably means it is on the right track. At worst it is a necessary dead end that has to be explored:-) On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Rahman, Akbar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Phillip, > > > I read through your draft and it was quite interesting. For DECADE, are > you proposing to use your scheme for the naming of DECADE objects or for > some other purpose? Please excuse me if the question had already been > discussed as I must have missed it. > > > Akbar > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Phillip Hallam-Baker > Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 1:55 PM > To: websec; [email protected] > Subject: [decade] Updated, updated DIGEST spec > > In response to comments on and off list, I have revved the draft to > produce a -02 > > * Have fixed the omission of the scheme and algorithm in > /.well-known/di/sha-256 > * Have changed the colon separating the algorithm and the digest to a > semi-colon on advice that some parsers will choke otherwise > * Have taken out the SHA-128 scheme and instead put in support for > truncation on an arbitrary 32 bit boundary. [This needs a security > consideration of course] > > I guess I should have added the acknowledgements section as well. > > > Stephen and I have had discussions off list. If all goes well this > should be the last version of this draft before we get to a merge. The > outcome that seems to be most likely to suit people's needs would be > to have two drafts. The first would just have the core syntax and > security considerations for using digest identifiers. The second would > have all the interesting stuff link locators and encryption and stuff. > Content-type would likely be in the second. > > I am going off to write some code. > > -- > Website: http://hallambaker.com/ > _______________________________________________ > decade mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/decade > -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/ _______________________________________________ websec mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/websec
