Richard, Is an browser actually interested in implementing the output of this WG?
-Ekr On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Richard Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > Mozilla should oppose the formation of this working group. The charter > fails to specify concrete deliverables, and many of the potential > deliverables listed have been opposed several times by browser vendors, > e.g., because hardware assets exposed to JS can be used as super-cookies. > > If anything is to be done here, it should be done in a community group or > other forum until they have a story for what exactly they will be > developing and how it fits with the web security model. > > On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 8:34 PM, L. David Baron <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The W3C is proposing a charter for: > > > > Hardware Security Working Group > > https://www.w3.org/2015/hasec/2015-hasec-charter.html > > https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2016Feb/0009.html > > > > Mozilla has the opportunity to send comments or objections through > > Friday, April 1. > > > > Please reply to this thread if you think there's something we should > > say as part of this charter review. > > > > (My understanding is that there is some concern that this work could > > create supercookie-like features, which would be bad.) > > > > -David > > > > -- > > 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 > > 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 > > Before I built a wall I'd ask to know > > What I was walling in or walling out, > > And to whom I was like to give offense. > > - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914) > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
