Re: Draft text for authenticated origins

On 02/12/14 22:38, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> At TPAC we agreed I would come up with some text to encourage people to
> look at authenticated origins for gUM without mandating it. Domenic
> contributed some
> text in Bugzilla (thanks) and I've modified it some to something I'm
> happy with, as
> below. PTAL:
>
> When on an insecure origin, user agents are encouraged wish to warn
> about usage of MediaDevices.getUserMedia, navigator.getUserMedia, and
> any prefixed variants in their developer tools, error logs, etc. It is
> explicitly
> permitted for user agents to remove these APIs entirely when on an
> insecure origin, as long as they remove all of them at once (e.g.,
> they should not leave just the prefixed version available on insecure
> origins).

Looks like a good start to me. Is secure/insecure as defined in [1], or 
do you see us defining it ourselves ([1] seem pretty unstable)? (and if 
according to [1], should we bring up the different variants?)

[1] http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/mixedcontent/

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