Re: OpenPGP agenda for Dec 7

["William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

In <19981202212941.C28710@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, on 12/02/98 
   at 09:29 PM, Thomas Roessler <roessler@xxxxxxx> said:

>On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 12:29:45PM -0500, William H. Geiger III wrote:

>> Well this is going to depend on how the signatures are being used.

>precisely.  This means that it is useless to define specific semantics in
>a format description since user agents following the trivial variant of
>displaying _all_ signature integrity information to the user behave
>optimally.

Well curently there is no format at all for creating parallel signatures. This should be documented in the ID. What the users do with those parallel signatures is another matter that should be left to the application and is outside the scope of an ID.

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