OASIS Digital Signature Services TC

The original Call For Participation for this TC may be found at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200210/msg00001.html

The charter for this TC was modified on 2 December 2002 (see http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dss/200212/msg00003.html); this change was announced at http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/tc-announce/200302/msg00003.html

The charter for this TC was last modified on 15 November 2004 as minuted at http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/10228/DSS-Minutes15-nov-04.txt.

The charter for this TC is as follows.

Name

OASIS Digital Signature Services Technical Committee (DSS)

Statement of Purpose

The Digital Signature Services Technical Committee has as its mandate the development of techniques to support the processing of digital signatures. This mandate includes defining an interface for requesting that a web service produce and/or verify a digital signature on a given piece of data and techniques for proving that a signature was created within its key validity period.

The TC will develop a protocol for a digital signature creation web service. Providing digital signatures via such a web service facilitates policy-based control of the provision of the signatures.

The TC will develop a protocol for a digital signature verification web service that can verify signatures in relation to a given policy set.

The TC will develop an XML-based protocol to produce cryptographic time-stamps that can be used for determining whether or not a signature was created within the associated key's validity period or before revocation. The TC will also develop an XML format for cryptographic time-stamps.

Finally, the TC will develop a set of profiles of the aforementioned protocols. These profiles will define specific uses of the general protocols to address specific applications.

Relationship to Existing Activities:

Many efforts related to digital signatures and related technologies are underway throughout the industry. The following work may be relevant to this Digital Signature Services TC:

  • OASIS Access Control TC (XACML)
  • OASIS Rights Language TC (XrML)
  • OASIS Security Services TC (SAML)
  • OASIS Web Services Security TC (WSSTC)
  • OASIS Election and Voter Services TC
  • OASIS LegalXML eNotary TC
  • OASIS LegalXML Electronic Court filing
  • OASIS ebXML Registry TC
  • OASIS XML Common Biometric Format TC (XCBF)
  • W3C XML Signature
  • W3C XML Key Management
  • W3C XML Encryption
  • ETSI Electronic Signatures and Infrastructures Technical Committee
  • ANSI X9F4 X9.95 (Trusted Time Stamps)
  • ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27 and standard ISO/IEC 18014
  • Universal Postal Union S43-2 Electronic PostMark (EPM) interface standard

List of Deliverables

The new TC will have the following deliverables:

  1. an XML-based protocol for signature and time-stamp creation and verification.
  2. bindings for the protocol elements in 1 including SOAP and HTTP and TLS security.
  3. a set of profiles for the application of the above protocols to specific application areas.

 

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