Re: Call for consensus: Marking spki and pkcs8 key format support as non-normative from Ryan Sleevi on 2016-08-01 (public-webcrypto@w3.org from August 2016)

From: Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 11:33:09 -0700
To: Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org>
Cc: Charles Engelke <w3c@engelke.com>, "public-webcrypto@w3.org" <public-webcrypto@w3.org>
Message-ID: <CACvaWvayGVtVdPn6TzozEyya8gcQMppV_k1+TmgmpW-BtMa3ig@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org> wrote:

> Note that pkcs8 and spki support will remain in the spec, but it will just
> be explicitly marked as non-normative, so I don't think this is a problem.
> Taking them out will be difficult, and some developers rely on them for
> legacy reasons so not having them in the spec may confuse developers, but
> we should clearly recommend JWKs for future WebApps. So I think I agree
> with your general analysis!
>
Harry,

I don't think "we should clearly recommend JWKs for future WebApps" is
necessarily a good thing. So let's be careful when making such claims. JWK
equally has interoperability issues, like ASN.1, but you don't seem to be
proposing to move that to non-normative.

Received on Tuesday, 2 August 2016 00:03:43 UTC