Subject: Comments o signatures

From: David Burdett <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 21:47:26 +0100

Roland SEIDL of Telstra Research, made some comments in an earlier email
which I overlooked. These are now discussed below.

David

<<< Clip >>>
Some more comments on the draft.

Section 5.1
   "which Organisation(s) should be the receive the signature"
should read
   "which Organisation(s) should be the receiver of the signature" (?????)
## Now changed to read ...
*	which Organisation(s) should process the signature in order to check
that the Action the Organisation should take can occur. ## 

Figure 12 is inconsistent with the Signature Component DTD. The
RecipientInfo
block should be a subordinate of the Manifest block. The same inconsistency
appears in fig. 13 -- the Originator Info and Recipient Info blocks are all
subordinates of the Manifest block.
## Fixed##

I note that the Signature Component DTD is identical with that of the
Digital Signatures
for IOTP draft -- complete with the same errors!
  <!ELEMENT manifest ---- has no terminating ">"
 <!ATTRLIST ----  should be "<!ATTLIST"

## It's not surprising really since this part of the DTD in the IOTP spec
was copied from the signatures DTD. Anyway the problems will be fixed when
the Signatures spec is revised. ##

There is also a difference of opinion between the 2 draft specs.
 -- In Section 5.1.2 of the IOTP draft it states:
    "Attribute element with a type attribute set to IOTPSignatureType..."

 -- In Section 4.3.6 of the Digital Signature draft it states:
   "At this time, no IOTP specific attributes are specified."
## This will also be fixed when the Signatures spec is revised ##
> mailto:<[email-masked]>
> Mondex International, US Advanced Technology Office
> 111 Pine St, 6th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111
> Tel/Voicemail: +1 415 645 6973	Fax: +1 415 956 9370
> 

**********************************************************************************************

This Email and any attached files are confidential and may also be privileged. 
If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the postmaster using email 
address [email-masked] or call +44 171 557 5000 and ask for the 
IT Helpdesk.  You should not copy this email and any attached files, use them 
for any purpose or disclose the contents to any other person; all copies of the 
Email and associated files in your possession should be destroyed.

Mondex International Limited
47-53 Cannon Street
London EC4M 5SQ
United Kingdom
Registered No: 3122085, England

Phone:          +44 171 557 5000
Fax:            +44 171 557 5200
Email:          [email-masked]
WebSite:        http://www.mondexinternational.com

*********************************************************************************************
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message addressed to: [email-masked]
Archive available at: http://www.elistx.com/archives/ietf-trade/
To (un)subscribe send a message with "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" in the
body to: [email-masked]