That is a potential representation for the concept.  I believe that its 
advocates would argue that repeating the payload in each message is redundant 
and not space-efficient, but I'm not personally taking a position on this use 
case either way.

                                -- Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Hardt [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 2:29 PM
To: Mike Jones
Cc: Joe Hildebrand; Paul Hoffman; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [woes] Preparation for the WOES meeting


On 2011-03-22, at 2:19 PM, Mike Jones wrote:

> The use case for this comes from the OpenID Contract Exchange specification, 
> where they want multiple parties to have signed the same plaintext in no 
> particular order.  This occurs in real life, for instance, when both parties 
> have to sign the same business or real estate contract.

Why not solve this infrequent use case with multiple identical messages signed 
separately?
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