INTERNET-DRAFT                                                John Boyer
                                                      PureEdge Solutions
                                                           Merlin Hughes
                                                  Baltimore Technologies
                                                           Joseph Reagle
                                                                     W3C
Expires: February 2004                                       August 2003



                     XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0
                     ------------- ----- ----------
                    <draft-ietf-xmldsig-xpf2-01.txt>



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Abstract

   XML Signature [XML-DSig] recommends a standard means for specifying
   information content to be digitally signed and for representing the
   resulting digital signatures in XML. Some applications require the
   ability to specify a subset of a given XML document as the
   information content to be signed. The XML Signature specification
   meets this requirement with the XPath transform. However, this
   transform can be difficult to implement efficiently with existing
   technologies. This specification defines a new XML Signature
   transform to facilitate the development of efficient document
   subsetting implementations that interoperate under similar
   performance profiles.



W3C Status of this document

   W3C Recommendation 08 November 2002

   This version:
        http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xmldsig-filter2-20021108/
   Errata:
        http://www.w3.org/2002/11/xpath-filter2-errata.html
   Latest version:
        http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-filter2/

   This document is the W3C XML Signature XPath-Filter 2.0
   Recommendation. This document has been reviewed by W3C Members and
   other interested parties and has been endorsed by the Director as a
   W3C Recommendation. It is a stable document and may be used as
   reference material or cited as a normative reference from another
   document. W3C's role in making the Recommendation is to draw
   attention to the specification and to promote its widespread
   deployment. This enhances the functionality and interoperability of
   the Web.
















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Table of Contents

      Status of This Document....................................1
      Copyright Notice...........................................1

      Abstract...................................................2
      W3C Status of this document................................2

      Table of Contents..........................................3

      1. Introduction............................................4
      1.1. Acknowledgements (Informative)........................5

      2. Terminology.............................................6

      3. Specification of Signature Filter Transform.............7
      3.1 Algorithm Identifier...................................7
      3.2 Syntax of Signature Filter Transform...................7
      3.3 Input and Evaluation Context of Signature Filter
            Transform............................................8
      3.4 Processing Model of Signature Filter Transform.........9

      4. Examples of Signature Filter Transform.................12
      5. Normative References...................................16
      Changes from Draft-00 to Draft-01.........................16

      Authors Addresses.........................................17

      Full Copyright Statement..................................18
      Expiration and File Name..................................18






















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1. Introduction

   The XML Recommendation [XML] specifies the syntax of a class of
   objects called XML documents. The Namespaces in XML Recommendation
   [XML-NS] specifies additional syntax and semantics for XML documents.
   The XML Signature Recommendation [XML-DSig] defines standard means
   for specifying information content to be digitally signed, including
   the ability to select a portion of an XML document to be signed using
   an XPath transform.

   This specification describes a new signature filter transform that,
   like the XPath transform [XML-DSig, section 6.6.3], provides a method
   for computing a portion of a document to be signed. In the interest
   of simplifying the creation of efficient implementations, the
   architecture of this transform is not based on evaluating an [XPath]
   expression for every node of the XML parse tree (as defined by the
   [XPath] data model). Instead, a sequence of XPath expressions is used
   to select the roots of document subtrees -- location sets, in the
   language of [XPointer] -- which are combined using set intersection,
   subtraction and union, and then used to filter the input node-set.
   The principal differences from the XPath transform are:

      * A sequence of XPath operations can be executed in a single
        transform, allowing complex filters to be more easily expressed
        and optimized.
      * The XPath expressions are evaluated against the input document
        resulting in a set of nodes, instead of being used as a boolean
        test against each node of the input node-set.
      * To increase efficiency, the expansion of a given node to include
        all nodes having the given node as an ancestor is now implicit
        so it can be performed by faster means than the evaluation of an
        XPath expression for each document node.
      * The resulting node-sets can be combined using the three
        fundamental set operations (intersection, subtraction, and
        union), and then applied as a filter against the input node-set,
        allowing operations such as signing an entire document except
        for a specified subset, to be expressed more clearly and
        efficiently.

   As with the original XPath transform, the primary purpose of this
   transform is to ensure that only specifically defined changes to the
   input XML document are permitted after the signature is affixed. This
   can be done by excluding precisely those nodes that are allowed to
   change once the signature is affixed, and including all other input
   nodes in the output. It is the responsibility of the signature filter
   transform author to ensure that nodes are not excluded which could
   affect the interpretation of the transform output in the application
   context.

   Consider the motivating scenario where an application wishes to affix


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   two enveloped signatures to the document; any other change to the
   document must cause the signatures to be invalid. When the
   application creates the first signature that signature is
   automatically omitted from its own digest calculations. However, it
   will also be necessary to exclude the subsequent (second) signature
   element from the digest calculations of the first signature. This
   specification can be used to efficiently satisfy this requirement
   using the set subtraction operation.

   This transform also supports the ability to specify a set of nodes
   that will be included in a signature, with all non-specified nodes
   being excluded.  This formulation is useful for isolating a portion
   of a document, such as a chapter of a document, or a payload in a
   protocol message, and can be expressed using the set intersection
   operation.

   Complete familiarity with the first XML Signature XPath Transform
   [XML-DSig, section 6.6.3] is required.

   NOTE: Since XPath Filter 2.0 depends on details of XPath, be sure to
   take into account the XPath Errata at <http://www.w3.org/1999/11/REC-
   xpath-19991116-errata>.



1.1. Acknowledgements (Informative)

   The following people provided valuable feedback that improved the
   quality of this specification:

      * Christian Geuer-Pollmann, Universitat Siegen
      * Donald Eastlake 3rd, Motorola
      * Gregor Karlinger, IAIK TU Graz
      * Aleksey Sanin


















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2. Terminology

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [Keywords].

   The XPath 1.0 Recommendation [XPath] defines the term node-set as
   "(an unordered collection of nodes without duplicates)" and specifies
   a data model for representing an input XML document as a set of nodes
   of various types (element, attribute, namespace, text, comment,
   processing instruction, and root).

   An input document is the document that contains all the nodes
   available to processing by this transform. A document subset is a
   portion of an XML document indicated by an XPath node-set, which may
   not include all of the nodes in the document. For example, the input
   node-set is a collection of XPath nodes from the input document that
   is passed as a parameter to this transform. A subtree rooted by a
   given node is a document subset containing the given node and every
   node having the given node as an ancestor. Subtree expansion is the
   process of expanding a node-set to include all subtrees rooted at any
   node in the node-set. For example, the subtree expansion of a node-
   set consisting of just a single element node would be a node-set
   containing that element, its attribute nodes, namespace nodes, and
   all its descendants including their attribute nodes and namespaces
   nodes.

   The XML Signature Recommendation [XML-DSig] defines a reference as a
   sequence of steps performed to obtain an octet stream to be digitally
   signed. A transform is an identified algorithm to be used as a step
   in the reference processing model. A transform takes an octet stream
   or XPath node-set as input, and it produces an octet stream or XPath
   node-set as output (the reference processing model automatically
   converts the final output to an octet stream if it is an XPath node-
   set).

















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3. Specification of Signature Filter Transform

   The transform operates by computing a node-set that is used to filter
   the input node-set: The output node-set consists of only those nodes
   in both the input node-set and the filter node-set. In other words,
   the output node-set is the intersection of the input node-set and the
   computed filter node-set.

   The filter node-set is computed by evaluating a sequence of XPath
   expressions and combining their results. A node-set is initially
   computed containing the entire input document. In sequence, each
   XPath expression is then evaluated, subtree-expanded, and then used
   to transform the filter node-set according to a specified set
   operation; intersection, subtraction, or union. After all XPaths have
   been applied, the resulting node-set is used as the filter node-set.



3.1 Algorithm Identifier

   The XML Signature Recommendation [XML-DSig] uses a [URI] to identify
   each algorithm to be performed when creating or validating a
   signature. The signature filter transform is identified as follows:

   Algorithm Identifier
        http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xmldsig-filter2



3.2 Syntax of Signature Filter Transform

   The signature filter transform shall be represented by a sequence of
   one or more elements named XPath. The content of XPath is character
   data containing an XPath expression. The XPath has an attribute named
   Filter whose possible values are intersect, subtract, and union. The
   Filter attribute indicates the set operation that is performed with
   the resulting node-set when computing the filter node-set. The
   following is an example of markup for a signature filter that signs
   the entire input node-set except for elements with identifier foo and
   bar (and all nodes with one of those elements as an ancestor):

      <XPath Filter="subtract"
       xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xmldsig-filter2">
         id("foo bar")
      </XPath>

      Schema Definition:

      <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
      <!DOCTYPE schema


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       PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XMLSchema 200102//EN"
              "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema.dtd"
      [
        <!ATTLIST schema
          xmlns:xf CDATA #FIXED 'http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xmldsig-filter2'>
        <!ENTITY xf 'http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xmldsig-filter2'>
        <!ENTITY % p ''>
        <!ENTITY % s ''>
       ]>

      <schema xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
              xmlns:xf="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xmldsig-filter2"
              targetNamespace="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xmldsig-filter2"
              version="0.1" elementFormDefault="qualified">

      <element name="XPath"
               type="xf:XPathType"/>

      <complexType name="XPathType">
       <simpleContent>
         <extension base="string">
           <attribute name="Filter">
              <simpleType>
                <restriction base="string">
                  <enumeration value="intersect"/>
                  <enumeration value="subtract"/>
                  <enumeration value="union"/>
                </restriction>
              </simpleType>
           </attribute>
         </extension>
       </simpleContent>
      </complexType>

      </schema>

      DTD:

      <!ELEMENT XPath    (#PCDATA) >
      <!ATTLIST XPath
         Filter         (intersect|subtract|union) #REQUIRED >



3.3 Input and Evaluation Context of Signature Filter Transform

   The input required by this transform is an XPath node-set over the
   input document. If the input document is an octet stream, then the
   application MUST convert the octet stream to an XPath node-set that
   contains all of the document nodes (including comment nodes). The


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   evaluation context for the XPath expressions in the filter transform
   will be:

      * A context node equal to the root node of the document whose
        node-set was provided as input to this transform. The root node
        is the parent of the document element and any comment and
        processing instruction nodes outside of the document element.
      * A context position, initialized to 1.
      * A context size, initialized to 1.
      * A library of functions equal to the function set defined in
        [XPath] plus a function named here().
      * A set of variable bindings. No means for initializing these is
        defined.  Thus, the set of variable bindings used when
        evaluating the XPath expression is empty, and use of a variable
        reference in the XPath expression results in an error.
      * The set of namespace declarations in scope for the XPath
        element.

   The function here() is defined as follows:

   Function: node-set here()

      The here() function returns a node-set containing the attribute or
      processing instruction node or the parent element of the text node
      that directly bears the XPath expression. In this transform, this
      will be the XPath element. This expression results in an error if
      the containing XPath expression does not appear in the same XML
      document against which the XPath expression is being evaluated.




3.4 Processing Model of Signature Filter Transform

   Using the aforementioned evaluation context, the signature filter
   transform evaluates the XPath expressions appearing in the character
   content of the XPath elements and uses these to compute a filter
   node-set F, which is then used to filter the input node-set I
   resulting in an output node-set O:

     * Initialize the filter node-set F to consist of all nodes in the
        input document.
     * Iterate through each XPath expression, X, in sequence, and update
        the filter node-set F as follows:
     *
          o Evaluate the XPath expression X. The result is a node-set S.
          o Compute the set S' consisting of all nodes in the input
             document that are either present in S or that have an
             ancestor in S. This is equal to the union of all the
             document subtrees rooted by a node in S.


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          o If the Filter attribute value is intersect, then compute the
             intersection of the selected subtrees, S', with the filter
             node-set F. The result will include only those nodes that
             are in both the filter node-set and the selected subtrees:
             F' = F INTERSECT S'.
          o If the Filter attribute value is subtract, then compute the
             subtraction of the selected subtrees, S', from the filter
             node-set F. The result will include only those nodes that
             are in the filter node-set, but not the selected subtrees:
             F' = F - S'.
          o Otherwise, if the Filter attribute value is union, then
             compute the union the selected subtrees, S', with the
             filter node-set F.  The result will include all those nodes
             that are in either the filter node-set, the selected
             subtrees, or both: F' = F UNION S'.
          o Update the filter node-set F to be the new node-set F'.
     * Finally, after applying all the XPath expressions, compute the
        output node-set O to be the intersection of the computed filter
        node-set, F, with the input node-set, I. The result will include
        all nodes from the input node-set that are also in the filter
        node-set: O = I INTERSECT F.
     * An empty input node-set will always result in an empty output
        node-set.

   In this processing model, the conversion from a subtree
   interpretation of the XPath expressions to a node-set containing all
   nodes that must be used during the set operation, along with actual
   performance of the set operation, is described explicitly.
   Implementors SHOULD observe that it is possible to compute the
   effective result of this operation in a single pass through the input
   document without performing subtree expansion or any set operations:

     * For each XPath expression X, in sequence, evaluate the expression
        and store the resulting node-set, S, along with the associated
        set operation.
     * Prepend a node-set consisting of just the document node, along
        with the operation union.
     * Create a new, empty filter node-set.
     * Process each node in the input node-set document, adding each
        node to the output node-set F if a flag Z is true. The flag is
        computed as follows:
          o Z is true if and only if the node is present in any subtree-
             expanded union node-set and all subsequent subtree-expanded
             intersect node-sets but no subsequent subtree-expanded
             subtract node-sets, or false otherwise. If there are no
             subsequent intersect or subtract node-sets, then that part
             of the test is automatically passed.
          o Presence in a subtree-expanded node-set can be efficiently
             determined without actually expanding the node-set, by
             simply maintaining a stack or count that identifies whether


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             any nodes from that node-set are an ancestor of the node
             being processed.

   Implementers MAY further observe that, if this transform is followed
   by a canonicalization operation (e.g., [XML-C14N]), the described
   filter computation can be efficiently commingled with the document-
   order canonicalization processing.













































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4. Examples of Signature Filter Transform

   The example below illustrates one way to create an enveloped
   signature with the signature filter transform. The function here()
   identifies the XPath element, and the subsequent location path
   obtains the nearest ancestor Signature element. Due to the subtract
   value of the Filter attribute, the output of the signature filter
   transform is a node-set containing every node from the input node-set
   except the nodes in the subtree rooted by the Signature element
   containing the example signature filter transform below.

   <XPath Filter="subtract"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xmldsig-filter2"
    xmlns:dsig="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">
      here()/ancestor::dsig:Signature[1]
   </XPath>

   A suitable signature reference URI to use with this subtract filter
   would be URI="" (the entire signature document, without comments),
   URI="#xpointer(/)" (the entire signature document, with comments) or
   any same-document reference that includes the signature itself.

   An example of an intersect filter is a signature that co-signs
   another signature. In this example, a Signature element identified by
   PrimaryBorrowSig must be signed. The XPath expression obtains the
   element node, and the transform expands the output node-set to
   contain all nodes from the input node-set that are also in the
   subtree rooted by the element node.

   <XPath Filter="intersect"
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xmldsig-filter2">
      id("PrimaryBorrowerSig")
   </XPath>

   This type of intersect filter is useful for efficiently signing
   subsets of a document, whether this is the same document as the
   signature or an external document. For example, if the signature
   reference URI is URI="document.xml", then this document will be
   automatically parsed and just the identified element and its
   descendants will be signed.

   Union filters, by themselves are of no particular use: The initial
   filter node-set consists of the entire input document; any union with
   this will have no effect, so the output of the transform will be
   identical to the input. The union operation is intended to follow a
   subtract operation, to allow a subtree to be removed, with the
   exception of a lower subtree which is still included in the output.

   Consider the following document which contains a same-document
   enveloped signature reference with an XPath filter containing three


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   XPath operations:

   <Document>
     <ToBeSigned>
       <!-- comment -->
       <Data />
       <NotToBeSigned>
         <ReallyToBeSigned>
           <!-- comment -->
           <Data />
         </ReallyToBeSigned>
       </NotToBeSigned>
     </ToBeSigned>
     <ToBeSigned>
       <Data />
       <NotToBeSigned>
         <Data />
       </NotToBeSigned>
     </ToBeSigned>
     <dsig:Signature
      xmlns:dsig="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#"
      xmlns:dsig-xpath="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xmldsig-filter2">
       <dsig:SignedInfo>
         ...
         <dsig:Reference URI="">
           <dsig:Transforms>
             <dsig:Transform
              Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xmldsig-filter2">
               <dsig-xpath:XPath
                Filter="intersect"> //ToBeSigned </dsig-xpath:XPath>
               <dsig-xpath:XPath
                Filter="subtract"> //NotToBeSigned </dsig-xpath:XPath>
               <dsig-xpath:XPath
                Filter="union"> //ReallyToBeSigned </dsig-xpath:XPath>
             </dsig:Transform>
           </dsig:Transforms>
           ...
         </dsig:Reference>
       </dsig:SignedInfo>
       ...
     </dsig:Signature>
   </Document>

   The intersect operation computes the intersection of the XPath-
   selected subtrees with the filter node-set. In this case, the filter
   node-set initially contains the entire input document, and the XPath
   expression evaluates to the two ToBeSigned elements; these are
   expanded to include all their descendents and intersected with the
   filter node-set, resulting in the following:



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     <ToBeSigned>
       <!-- comment -->
       <Data />
       <NotToBeSigned>
         <ReallyToBeSigned>
           <!-- comment -->
           <Data />
         </ReallyToBeSigned>
       </NotToBeSigned>
     </ToBeSigned><ToBeSigned>
       <Data />
       <NotToBeSigned>
         <Data />
       </NotToBeSigned>
     </ToBeSigned>

   The subtract filter computes the subtraction of the XPath-selected
   subtrees from the filter node-set. In this case, the XPath expression
   evaluates to the two NotToBeSigned elements; these are expanded to
   include all their descendents and subtracted from the filter node-
   set:

   <ToBeSigned>
       <!-- comment -->
       <Data />

     </ToBeSigned><ToBeSigned>
       <Data />

   </ToBeSigned>

   Next, the union filter computes the union of the XPath-selected
   subtrees with the filter node-set. In this case, the XPath expression
   evaluates to the ReallyToBeSigned element; this is expanded to
   include all its descendents and added to the filter node-set:

   <ToBeSigned>
       <!-- comment -->
       <Data />
       <ReallyToBeSigned>
           <!-- comment -->
           <Data />
         </ReallyToBeSigned>
     </ToBeSigned><ToBeSigned>
       <Data />

   </ToBeSigned>

   Finally, this resulting filter node-set is used to transform the
   input node-set. In this example, the input node-set is the entire


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   document, with comments removed. The transformed node-set will thus
   be all those nodes from the input document, less comments, that are
   also in the filter node-set:

   <ToBeSigned>

       <Data />
       <ReallyToBeSigned>

           <Data />
         </ReallyToBeSigned>
     </ToBeSigned><ToBeSigned>
       <Data />

   </ToBeSigned>

   Note that the result contains no nodes that were not in the input
   node-set.  Although the filter node-set included comments, these were
   not present in the input node-set so they are not present in the
   output node-set.

   This signature filter does not provide any increased capability over
   the original XPath transform. For example, this reference could be
   replicated using the XPath transform as follows.

   <dsig:Reference URI="">
     <dsig:Transforms>
       <dsig:Transform
        Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116">
         <dsig:XPath>
           (ancestor-or-self::ToBeSigned and
            not (ancestor-or-self::NotToBeSigned))
           or ancestor-or-self::ReallyToBeSigned
         </dsig:XPath>
       </dsig:Transform>
     </dsig:Transforms>
     ...
   </dsig:Reference>

   The advantage of the signature filter transform over the XPath
   transform is that the latter requires evaluation of a potentially-
   complex expression against every node in the input set, which has has
   proved costly in practice for many useful operations. This
   specification's filter requires evaluation of simple XPath
   expressions and then the execution of some basic set operations or
   their equivalent, which can be implemented significantly more
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5. Normative References

   [Keywords] - RFC 2119, "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
   Requirement Levels", S.  Bradner. Best Current Practice, March 1997.

   [URI] - RFC 2396, "Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic
   Syntax", T.  Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, and L. Masinter. Standards
   Track, August 1998.

   [XML] - "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition)", T.
   Bray, E.  Maler, J. Paoli, and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen. W3C
   Recommendation, October 2000.  Available at
   <http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006>.

   [XML-C14N] - RFC 3076, "Canonical XML", J. Boyer, March 2001. Also a
   W3C Recommendation available at <http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xml-
   c14n-20010315>.

   [XML-DSig] - RFC 3275, "XML-Signature Syntax and Processing", D.
   Eastlake, J. Reagle, and D.  Solo, Standards Track, March 2002.  Also
   a W3C Recommendation available at <http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-
   xmldsig-core-20020212/>.

   [XML-NS] - "Namespaces in XML", T. Bray, D. Hollander, and A. Layman.
   W3C Recommendation, January 1999.  Available at
   <http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/>.

   [XPath] - "XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0", J. Clark and S.
   DeRose. W3C Recommendation, November 1999.  Available at
   <http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xpath-19991116>. (Note also XPath
   Errara at <http://www.w3.org/1999/11/REC-xpath-19991116-errata>.)

   [XPointer] - "XML Pointer Language (XPointer)", S. DeRose, R. Daniel,
   and E. Maler. W3C Candidate Recommendation, January 2001.  Available
   at <http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/CR-xptr-20010911/>.



Changes from Draft-00 to Draft-01

   Add references to "XPath" and "XPath Filter 2.0" Errata.

   Change two occurances of "&mdash;" to "--".

   Add "3rd" to one occurance of "Donald Eastlake".







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Authors Addresses

   John Boyer
   PureEdge Solutions Inc.
   4396 West Saanich Rd.
   Victoria, BC, Canada V8Z 3E9

   Phone: 1-888-517-2675
   EMail: jboyer@PureEdge.com


   Merlin Hughes
   Baltimore Technologies, Ltd.
   77 A Street
   Needham Heights, MA 02494

   Telephone:   +1-781-455-3333
   EMail:       merlin@baltimore.ie


   Joseph M. Reagle Jr., W3C
   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   Laboratory for Computer Science
   NE43-350, 545 Technology Square
   Cambridge, MA 02139

   Phone: +1.617.258.7621
   EMail: reagle@w3.org
























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Expiration and File Name

   This draft expires February 2004.

   Its file name is <draft-ietf-xmldsig-xpf2-01.txt>.
















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