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Clear description of the referenced document:
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Status of approval:
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This is a W3C Recommendation published in 2001.
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Justification for the specific reference:
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The document is considered stable and provides a complete description of the XML canonicalization method. It is not appropriate to include the full text of the W3C XML Canonicalization Recommendation here. ITU-T Rec. X.893 specifies the use of the XML Canonicalization method, thus industry needs to be informed of where XML Canonicalization originated as it was not defined by ISO or ITU-T.
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Current information, if any, about IPR issues:
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No issues.
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Other useful information describing the "Quality" of the document:
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XML Canonicalization was published in March 2001, and has been widely used. Conformance requirements are clear, and the specification is readily and widely available.
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The degree of stability or maturity of the document:
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The document is considered stable and provides a complete description of XML Canonicalization method.
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Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
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XML Canonicalization is related to the following:
" W3C XML 1.0, Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition), W3C 2000.
" W3C XML Information Set, XML Information Set, W3C 2001.
" W3C XML Namespaces 1.0, Namespaces in XML, W3C 1999.
" W3C XML Base, XML Base, W3C 2000.
" W3C XML-Signature Syntax and Processing, W3C 2002.
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Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
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XML Canonicalization references the following documents: However it is considered that it is not necessary to reference these documents, as they do not directly impact X.893./
" W3C Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0: Fundamentals, W3C 2005./
" W3C XML Information Set, XML Information Set, W3C 2001./
" ISO 8859-1 Latin Character Set, ISO/IEC International Standard 1998./
" IETF RFC 2119, Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, IETF Standard 1997./
" W3C XML Namespaces 1.0, Namespaces in XML, W3C 1999./
" Unicode TR15, Unicode Normalization Forms, Unicode Consortium 1999./
" Normalization Corrigendum, Unicode Consortium 2003./
" The Unicode Standard, Unicode Consortium 2000./
" IETF RFC 2781, UTF-16, an encoding of ISO 10646, IETF Standard 2000./
" IETF RFC 2279, UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646, IETF Standard 1998./
" IETF RFC 2396, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax, IETF Standard, 1998./
" W3C XML Base, XML Base, W3C 2000./
" W3C XML 1.0, Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition), W3C 2000./
" W3C XML-Signature Syntax and Processing, W3C 2000./
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Qualification of
W3C:
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W3C is qualified for including references in ITU-T Recommendations under Recommendation A.5 procedures.
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Other (for any supplementary information):
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All standards are available on-line. An index of Recommendation and their status may be found in the W3C archives at http://www.w3.org/TR/ .
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