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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 of 12 February 2002.
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Justification for the specific reference:
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XMLDSIG can be used with SOAP/HTTP binding (Annex B)
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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 Signature was published in February 2002, 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 digital signature processing.Approved 12 Feb 2002. Second edition exists (2008). Latest version: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core/.
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Relationship with other existing or emerging documents:
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XML Signature is related to the following:
" IETF RFC 2141, URN Syntax, IETF Standard, May 1997
" IETF RFC 2396, Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax, IETF Standard, August 1998
" World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation, October 2000.
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Any explicit references within that referenced document should also be listed:
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XML Signature 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 Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification, W3C 1998./
" NIST FIPS PUB 186-2, Digital Signature Standard (DSS), NIST 2001./
" IETF RFC 2104, Keyed-Hashing for Message Authentication, IETF 1997./
" IETF RFC 2616, Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, IETF Standard, January 1996/
" IETF RFC 2119, Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels, IETF Standard 1997./
" IETF RFC 2253, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (v3): UTF-8 String Representation of Distinguished Names, IETF 1997./
" IETF RFC 1321, The MD5 Digest Algorithm, IETF 1992./
" IETF RFC 2045, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies, IETF 1996./
" Unicode TR15, Unicode Normalization Forms, Unicode Consortium 1999./
" Normalization Corrigendum, Unicode Consortium 2003./
" IETF RFC 2240, OpenPGP Message Format, IETF 1998./
" IETF RFC 1750, Randomness Recommendations for Security, IETF 1994./
" W3C Resource Description Framework (RDF) Schema Specification 1.0, W3C 2002./
" IEEE 1363, Standard Specifications for Public Key Cryptography, IEEE August 2000./
" IETF RFC 2437, PKCS #1: RSA Cryptography Specifications Version 2.0, IETF 1998./
" NIST FIPS 180-1, Secure Hash Standard, NIST 1995./
" W3C Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1, W3C 2001./
" 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./
" IETF RFC 2732, Format for Literal IPv6 Addresses in URL's, IETF Standard 1999./
" IETF RFC 1738, Universal Resource Locators (URL), IETF Standard, December 1994/
" IETF RFC 2141, URN Syntax, IETF Standard, May 1997/
" ITU-T X.509 version 3, The Directory Authentication Framework, ITU-T 1997./
" W3C XHTML™ 1.0: The Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, W3C 2000./
" W3C XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0, W3C 2001./
" W3C XML 1.0, Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition), W3C 2000./
" W3C Canonical XML, W3C 2001./
" IETF RFC 2376, XML Media Types, IETF 1998./
" W3C XML Namespaces 1.0, Namespaces in XML, W3C 1999./
" W3C XML Schema Part 1, XML Schema Part 1: Structures, W3C 2001./
" W3C XML Schema Part 2, XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes, W3C 2001./
" W3C XML Path Language (XPath), W3C 1999./
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Qualification of
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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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