Signing events

[Rob Seaman]

Hi John,

I believe both remain valid points of view.  What the WG had decided - at least for v2.0 - was not to include explicit hooks for the signatures in the schema itself, but this shouldn't strongly impact any of the options.  Few of the many and varied transient alert projects have had strong immediate signing requirements.  Do you have a specific project need here?

Rob
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On Jan 24, 2012, at 6:18 AM, John Swinbank wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> Forgive me ignorance, but I'm trying to get up to speed on previous discussions about signing VOEvents. I've seen Bob Denny's proposal at <http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/latest/VOEventDigiSig.html> and Steve Allen's publication (Astron. Nach., 329, 298-300, 2008). Both of those are a few years old now, though, and I'm wondering if either of them have gained community support/acceptance or if they state of the art has moved on to something different.
> 
> I've had quick browse through the mailing list archives, but can't seen anything very conclusive. Any thoughts or references on current best practice?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John