Invitation to comment on two Digital Signature Service specifications – ends October 21

OASIS and the OASIS Digital Signature Services eXtended (DSS-X) TC are pleased to announce that Digital Signature Service Core Protocols, Elements, and Bindings v2.0 and Digital Signature Service Metadata v1.0 are now available for public review and comment.

The Digital Signature Services (DSS) Core specification defines JSON and XML based request/response protocols – a signing protocol and a verifying protocol. Through these protocols a client can send documents or other data to a server and receive back a signature on the documents; or send documents and a signature to a server, and receive back an answer on whether the signature verifies the documents. The DSS Core specification provides the basic protocols and elements which are adapted to support specific use cases in the DSS profiles. It also defines a timestamp format, and a signature property for use with these protocols. Finally, it defines transport and security bindings for the protocols.

The DSS Metadata specification defines JSON and XML structures and discovery mechanisms for metadata related to digital signature services.

The documents and related files are available here:

Digital Signature Service Core Protocols, Elements, and Bindings Version 2.0
Committee Specification Draft 03 / Public Review Draft 03
20 September 2019

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https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-core/v2.0/csprd03/dss-core-v2.0-csprd03.docx
HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-core/v2.0/csprd03/dss-core-v2.0-csprd03.html
PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-core/v2.0/csprd03/dss-core-v2.0-csprd03.pdf
JSON and XML schemas:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-core/v2.0/csprd03/schema/
For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the specification document and any related files in ZIP distribution files. You can download the ZIP file at:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-core/v2.0/csprd03/dss-core-v2.0-csprd03.zip

Digital Signature Service Metadata Version 1.0
Committee Specification Draft 02 / Public Review Draft 02
20 September 2019

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https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-md/v1.0/csprd02/dss-md-v1.0-csprd02.docx
HTML:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-md/v1.0/csprd02/dss-md-v1.0-csprd02.html
PDF:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-md/v1.0/csprd02/dss-md-v1.0-csprd02.pdf
JSON and XML schemas:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-md/v1.0/csprd02/schema/
ZIP:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-md/v1.0/csprd02/dss-md-v1.0-csprd02.zip

How to Provide Feedback

OASIS and the OASIS Digital Signature Services eXtended (DSS-X) TC value your feedback. We solicit input from developers, users and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

The public review starts October 7, 2019 at 00:00 UTC and ends October 21 at 23:59 UTC.
These specifications were previously submitted for public review [3].

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be used by following the instructions on the TC’s “Send A Comment” page (https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=dss-x).

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dss-x-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [1] applicable especially [2] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.

Additional information about the specifications and the DSS-X TC can be found at the TC’s public home page:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dss-x/

========== Additional references:

[1] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php

[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dss-x/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#RF-on-Limited-Mode
RF on Limited Terms Mode

[3] Previous public reviews:
Digital Signature Service Core Protocols, Elements, and Bindings Version 2.0
– 30-day public review: 29 August 2018
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dss-x/201808/msg00054.html
– Comment resolution log:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-core/v2.0/csprd01/dss-core-v2.0-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.ods
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-core/v2.0/csprd01/dss-core-v2.0-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.pdf
– 15-day public review: 13 March 2019
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dss-x/201903/msg00007.html
– Comment resolution log:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-core/v2.0/csprd02/dss-core-v2.0-csprd02-comment-resolution-log.ods
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-core/v2.0/csprd02/dss-core-v2.0-csprd02-comment-resolution-log.pdf

Digital Signature Service Metadata Version 1.0
– 30-day public review: 03 April 2019
https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dss-x/201904/msg00000.html
– Comment resolution log:
https://docs.oasis-open.org/dss-x/dss-md/v1.0/csprd01/dss-md-v1.0-csprd01-comment-resolution-log.txt