Re: [webauthn] keyType: "public-key" is superfluous

@balfanz wrote:
> User goes to paypal.com on their laptop, and types their username ... 
yes (if that is a system whose local storage was cleared or is a system the user has not used before) and then the RP's client-side webapp ought to be able to determine there's a roaming (aka external) authnr in range/connected and give it a try over CTAP2. The existing FIDO (UAF) credential is employed and the user signed-in on the browser on laptop. In the future they can just use their roaming-phone-external authnr with whatever CTAP2-enabled device without necessarily entering their username (modulo RP webapp sophistication).

That said, more generally, i think it would be a mistake to remove the `type` attribute (aka "assertion type" as @rlin1 proposes) in [`PublicKeyCredentialDescriptor`](https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/blob/14c2733ca6a4a9568e4c48fef1b870448818e811/index.bs#L1406) and in [`PublicKeyCredentialParameters`](https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/blob/14c2733ca6a4a9568e4c48fef1b870448818e811/index.bs#L1080) as it is an extension point.   


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