Fw: Re: [web messaging] Channel Messaging Origins

This is an eGov issue, I think; a big one.  Without this "security model", which implies possession=trust there is a lot of consumer location information which goes from proprietary/valuable to non-public/worthless.  That implication (assumption) is simply not necessary for GLD or LOD, is it ?

Information about places (as opposed to information about people in those places) is much different.  examples: EPA UV Index,  http://tinyurl.com/white-nights-forever

Any thoughts ?

[I imagine 51st Century Archaeologists digging in a place which used to be called 'Legal Seafood' (in Boston), and finding piles of oyster shells mixed with maxed-out credit cards.  I wonder what they'll make of that ?]

--Gannon 

--- On Tue, 8/2/11, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
> Subject: Re: [web messaging] Channel Messaging Origins
> To: public-html-comments@w3.org
> Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011, 2:04 PM
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2011, Philippe De Ryck
> wrote:
> > 
> > If two browsing contexts X and Y create a messaging
> channel using ports, 
> > no origin guarantees about the sender or receiver of
> the messages can be 
> > given. This is in contrast with the 'Cross-document
> Messaging' 
> > mechanism, where each message has a source and
> destination origin.
> 
> This is intentional. The security model here is a
> capabilities model, 
> where vending a MessagePort inherently grants a right.
> Exposing an origin 
> would actually undermine this, preventing capabilities from
> being 
> furthered to other origins.
> 
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