What problems are we trying to solve?

We don't yet have in the charter or elsewhere any explicit
statement about what problems we are trying to solve with the WSC
work. We have these statements:

  ...to enable users to come to a better understanding of the
  context that they are operating in when making trust decisions
  on the Web

  Other context information that might be available to user agents
  and possibly helpful to users is either not presented, or
  presented in a way that is not understood by users, and hence
  useless or confusing.

I understand that the goal it to specify how security-context
information could be presentated in such a way as to make it
useful for users in making trust decisions, but I think we ought
to consider giving some higher-level explanation of what specific
problems that will solve for users (and for Web content providers).

For example, will it help to prevent users from becoming victims
of phishing attacks? And will it help content providers in some way?

  --Mike

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