- From: Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org>
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:20:05 -0400
- To: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
- Cc: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>, "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>, Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im>, "michel@suignard.com" <michel@suignard.com>, "tony@att.com" <tony@att.com>, "plh@w3.org" <plh@w3.org>, "adil@diwan.com" <adil@diwan.com>, "robin@berjon.com" <robin@berjon.com>, "ted.ietf@gmail.com" <ted.ietf@gmail.com>, "John O'Conner" <jooconne@adobe.com>, "presnick@qualcomm.com" <presnick@qualcomm.com>, "chris@lookout.net" <chris@lookout.net>, "public-ietf-w3c@w3.org" <public-ietf-w3c@w3.org>
>> So I've seen a bunch of uniformly negative mail on this >> and nothing positive fwiw. > > That's because the folks who are in favor of doing this aren't > participating in this discussion. Indeed, so... >> Maybe it'd be good to get an appsarea presentation on it >> at an IETF meeting (assuming that's not happened) so the >> broader community get to know about it? >> >> I don't really know enough to be against it myself but >> it does sound like a bad security idea from the mails I've >> seen pass by so count me amongst those concerned about >> this. > > I'd caution you about forming an opinion after having heard only one > side of the issue. And I don't think Stephen has formed an opinion, so much as that he's *asking*, specifically, to hear the other side. I think a presentation and discussion in the Apps Area meeting in Atlanta (Monday morning, 5 Nov) would be good. Can we make this happen? Barry
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