XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group

From our charter: The mission of this Working Group is to perform limited maintenance work on the basic XML Security specifications, and suggest a charter for further work.

The end date of the WG has been extended to 30 June 2008.

The Group is part of the Security Activity. It takes up prior W3C Work on XML Signature and XML Encryption.

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News

XML Signature, Second Edition Proposed Edited Recommendation Published

The XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group has published the Proposed Edited Recommendation of XML Signature Syntax and Processing (Second Edition). (Permalink to W3C news announcement.)

This document specifies XML digital signature processing rules and syntax. XML Signatures provide integrity, message authentication, and/or signer authentication services for data of any type, whether located within the XML that includes the signature or elsewhere. Read the list of changes and the implementation report. Comments are welcome through 30 April.

C14N11 advances to Proposed Recommendation

Canonical XML 1.1 has advanced to Proposed Recommendation.

Work Group extended. Drafting Charter.

The end date of this WG has been extended to 31 March 2008 (member-only link). The Working Group is currently drafting a charter for a subsequent XML Security WG, incorporating feedback from Workshop participants, and working group members.

Please send any questions or comment on this draft charter to the public-xmlsec-discuss@w3.org mailing list.

Advancing C14N11

The WG has provided comments on C14N11 to XML Core and agreed to the disposition of those comments in the latest C14N11 draft. The WG is providing an implementation report (Members only) in support of advancing C14N11.

F2F meeting during Tech Plenary

The XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group met during the W3C Technical Plenary/Advisory Committee Meetings Week on Thursday and Friday, 8-9 November (minutes), held a joint meeting with XML Core to discuss C14N11 (minutes), and also met with the Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) WG to discuss XML Security and future EXI directions (minutes and slides).

Workshop

The Workshop Report that categorizes and summarizes discussion topics from the workshop is now available.

The Workshop on Next Steps for XML Signature and XML Encryption was held 25-26 September in Mountain View, California, USA, hosted by VeriSign. The meeting Agenda includes links to papers and slides from the meeting.

Interoperability Testing Event: C14N 1.1 and XML Digital Signatures Core

To prepare the transition of Canonical XML 1.1 to Proposed Recommendation, and the preparation of a Proposed Edited Recommendation for XML-Signature Syntax and Processing, the XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group held a one-day interoperability event in Mountain View, California, on 27 September 2007. The event was co-located with the W3C workshop on Next Steps for XML Signature and XML Encryption.

C14N11 is Candidate Recommendation

Canonical XML 1.1 has advanced to Candidate Recommendation. See the permalink for the W3C news announcement.

Mailing Lists

Technical discussion takes place on the Working Group public discussion list, public-xmlsec-maintwg@w3.org (archive). Group participants are automatically subscribed.

Administrative issues are discussed on the Member-only member-xmlsec-maintwg mailing list (archive). See the administrative page for more details.

Meetings

Approved Meeting Records

2008-04-15 Teleconference, 9-10:00 am Eastern Time Agenda v2

Minutes

2008-04-01 Teleconference, 9-10:00 am Eastern Time Agenda

Minutes

2008-03-18 Teleconference, 9-10:00 am Eastern Time Agenda v2

Minutes

2008-02-26 Teleconference, 9-10:00 am Eastern Time Agenda v2

Minutes

2008-02-19 Teleconference, 9-10:00am Eastern Time Agenda v2

Minutes

2008-02-12 Teleconference, 9-10:00am Eastern Time Agenda

Minutes

2008-02-05 Teleconference, 9-10:00am Eastern Time Agenda

Minutes

2008-01-29 Teleconference, 9-10:30am Eastern Time Agenda

Minutes

2008-01-22 Teleconference, 9-10:30am Eastern Time Agenda

Member-Only Minutes
Public Minutes

2008-01-15 Teleconference, 9-10:30am Eastern Time Agenda

Minutes

2008-01-08 Teleconference, 9-10:30am Eastern Time Agenda v2

Minutes

2008-01-01 Teleconference Cancelled

2007-12-25 Teleconference Cancelled

2007-12-18 Teleconference, 9-10:30am Eastern Time Agenda v3

Public Minutes
Member-Confidential Minutes

2007-12-11 Teleconference, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time Agenda v2

Public Minutes
Member-Only Minutes

2007-12-04 Teleconference, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time Agenda

Public Minutes
Member-Only Minutes

2007-11-27 Teleconference, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time Agenda v2

Minutes

2007-11-08 and 2007-11-09 F2F Agenda v4

Minutes 8 Nov
Minutes 9 Nov
Presentation - Eric Cohen: Business requirements for authentication and integrity of XBRL documents
XBRL Intro
Presentation - Ed Simon: XML Signature 2.0 Strawman Proposal v2
Member-only EXI minutes from joint XMLSec and EXI meeting. EXI Overview slides and EXI joint-meeting slides.

2007-11-06 Joint XMLSec and XML Core F2F session, 8:30-10:00 am Eastern Time XML Core Agenda

Topic is C14N11 CR. Information on teleconference on XML Core agenda page. Only open to XML Core and XMLSec WG members.

Minutes
Red-line C14N11 change summary

2007-10-30 Teleconference, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time Agenda

Public Minutes
Member-Only Minutes

2007-10-23 Teleconference, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time Agenda v3

Minutes (Member-Confidential Minutes)

2007-10-16 Teleconference, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time Agenda v2

Minutes (Member-Confidential Minutes)

2007-10-09 Teleconference, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time Agenda

Minutes

2007-10-02 Teleconference - Meeting cancelled

2007-09-25 Teleconference - Meeting cancelled - Workshop. Agenda, Workshop Report

2007-09-18 Teleconference, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time Agenda

Minutes

2007-09-11 Teleconference, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time Agenda

Minutes

2007-09-04 Teleconference, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time Agenda

Minutes

2007-08-28 Teleconference, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time Agenda

Minutes

2007-08-21 Teleconference, 9-10:30 am Eastern Time (Note with this call WG starts 90 minutes per call instead of 60.) Agenda v3

Minutes

2007-08-14 Teleconference, 9-10:00 am Eastern Time Agenda v2

Minutes

2007-08-07 Teleconference, 9-10 am Eastern Time Agenda v2

Minutes

2007-07-31 Teleconference, 9-10 am Eastern Time Agenda v3

Minutes

2007-07-24 Teleconference - Meeting cancelled

2007-07-17 Teleconference, 9-10 am Eastern Time - Agenda v3

Minutes

2007-07-10 Teleconference, 9-10 am Eastern Time - Agenda v2

Minutes

2007-06-26 Teleconference, 9-10 am Eastern Time - Agenda

Minutes

2007-06-19 Teleconference, 9-10 am Eastern Time - Agenda v3

Minutes

2007-06-12 Teleconference, 9-10 am Eastern Time - Agenda (v2)

Minutes

2007-06-05 Teleconference, 9-10 am Eastern Time- Agenda

Minutes

2007-05-29 Teleconference - Agenda

Minutes

2007-05-22 Teleconference - Agenda

Minutes

2007-05-15 Teleconference - Agenda

Minutes

2007-05-02 and 2007-05-03 F2F - Agenda (v4)

Minutes 2 May, and 3 May

2007-04-17 Teleconference - Agenda

Minutes

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