LTGM2. Good luck with the removal.

-mike


On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 6:44 PM Yoav Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:

> LGTM1 to deprecate and remove.
> Please roll out the removal carefully. I'd similarly be surprised if the
> removal causes breakage, but I have been surprised before, so.. :)
>
> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 6:41 PM Emily Stark <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 9:34 AM Yoav Weiss <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> What deprecation/removal timelines did you have in mind?
>>>
>>
>> Since there's no user-visible impact, I was hoping to do a console
>> message in M105 and then remove in M106.
>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 8, 2022 at 6:31 PM Emily Stark <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Contact [email protected]
>>>>
>>>> ExplainerNone
>>>>
>>>> Specificationhttps://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9163
>>>>
>>>> Summary
>>>>
>>>> Expect-CT is an HTTP header that allowed websites to opt in to
>>>> Certificate Transparency enforcement before it was enforced by default. It
>>>> also has reporting functionality to help developers discover CT
>>>> misconfigurations.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Blink componentInternals>Network>DomainSecurityPolicy
>>>> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Internals%3ENetwork%3EDomainSecurityPolicy>
>>>>
>>>> Motivation
>>>>
>>>> Expect-CT was designed to help transition to universal Certificate
>>>> Transparency (CT) enforcement, by allowing high-value websites to opt in to
>>>> CT enforcement/reporting for better security before CT enforcement was
>>>> required (by Chrome) on all public websites. However, Expect-CT has now
>>>> outlived its usefulness. Chrome requires CT on all public websites now, so
>>>> there is no security value to Expect-CT anymore. Expect-CT was also
>>>> designed to help site owners discover CT-related misconfigurations;
>>>> however, now that CT is universally required, CT is generally configured in
>>>> websites' certificates by certificate authorities and virtually never
>>>> configured by individual site owners, thus Expect-CT has very limited value
>>>> as a misconfiguration/debugging tool anymore either. No other browser has
>>>> implemented Expect-CT so removing it is not an interoperability concern.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Initial public proposal
>>>> https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/tgn5R-58iek/m/Q6YCnu0RFQAJ
>>>>
>>>> TAG reviewn/a
>>>>
>>>> TAG review statusNot applicable
>>>>
>>>> Risks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Interoperability and Compatibility
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No other browser has implemented Expect-CT or given signals that they
>>>> intend to (to my knowledge). Expect-CT is not user-visible so removing the
>>>> feature has no compatibility risk. Developers who are currently sending the
>>>> header should stop doing so just to save the bytes on the wire.
>>>>
>>>> While the header is served on a large percent of requests (~6%), this
>>>> is likely due to a small number of large providers that can be informed of
>>>> the deprecation via 1:1 outreach.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Are you planning to wait for usage to drop as a result of this outreach?
>>> Or are you fairly confident that removing will not break content due to
>>> some weird server side reliance on the header?
>>>
>>
>> I would be very very surprised if the removal caused any breakage, so I
>> think we can go ahead with the removal without waiting for usage to drop.
>> The outreach is really just a heads-up to allow websites to save some bytes
>> on serving the header and turn down any infrastructure they have in place
>> for receiving reports, but the feature is essentially a no-op right now so
>> removing it shouldn't cause any breakage.
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> As described above, the header serves no security value any longer,
>>>> removing it will have no user-visible effects, and the header provides
>>>> extremely minimal debugging value to developers since developers are no
>>>> longer responsible for serving their own CT information (100.00% of
>>>> requests serve CT information directly embedded in the certificate, which
>>>> developers are not responsible for configuring).
>>>>
>>>> *Gecko*: No signal
>>>>
>>>> *WebKit*: No signal
>>>>
>>>> *Web developers*: No signals
>>>>
>>>> *Other signals*:
>>>>
>>>> WebView application risks
>>>>
>>>> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such
>>>> that it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Debuggability
>>>>
>>>> We'll add a console message informing developers that the header
>>>> will/has no effect and they should remove it.
>>>>
>>>> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
>>>> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
>>>> ?No
>>>>
>>>> Flag name
>>>>
>>>> Requires code in //chrome?False
>>>>
>>>> Estimated milestones
>>>>
>>>> No milestones specified
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
>>>> https://chromestatus.com/feature/6244547273687040
>>>>
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>>>> <https://chromestatus.com/>.
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