Re: [W3C Web Crypto WG] minutes of 28th of Oct conf call

OK but entering Last Call without a single reference to progressive 
operations in the spec seems strange to me and can give arguments to 
detractors.

Regards

Aymeric

Le 06/11/2013 21:37, Ryan Sleevi a écrit :
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> On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Aymeric Vitte <vitteaymeric@gmail.com 
> <mailto:vitteaymeric@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     As I mentioned in other posts, the Streams API is evolving fast
>     right now (there is a new W3C version and a new WHATWG one), and
>     indeed it's good to have a note in WebCrypto spec so it will
>     support progressive operations when Streams are stable, as I wrote
>     too ideally if a createStream method is feasible the spec should
>     just mention that it supports Streams (notwithstanding next sentence).
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> As noted, specs reflect what is available. Especially was we move into 
> Last Call, it's not appropriate to contain such references. As we've 
> discussed before, it's certainly the intent that it's possible, and 
> if/when Streams become viable, we'll update the spec to reflect that.
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> Streams are certainly something we plan to take on after getting the 
> current version out. But not only is there no need to include an 
> informative note (since "Future changes in the Web may add additional 
> APIs" is implicit in EVERY spec), but it would be inappropriate to 
> reference in-progress/incomplete work.
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> Again, to re-iterate, Streams is something we plan to tackle next. 
> Your interest has been noted. But we can stop worrying about it for 
> this version, as was previously decided by the WG.
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> Cheers
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>     reuse crypto operations: I suggested a stop/resume method for
>     streams which is different from pause/unpause where resume does
>     restart from a cloned state of the operation that receives stop
>     and handle it as eof (ie cloning the crypto operation and closing
>     the current operation)
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>     Regards
>
>     Aymeric
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>     Le 05/11/2013 09:27, GALINDO Virginie a écrit :
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>>     Dear all,
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>>     Please note that the minutes of our previous call are available
>>     under http://www.w3.org/2013/10/28-crypto-minutes.html
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>>     Regards,
>>
>>     Virginie
>>
>>     Gemalto
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