[wbs] response to 'Call for Review: Web Performance Working Group Charter'

The following answers have been successfully submitted to 'Call for Review:
Web Performance Working Group Charter' (Advisory Committee) for Mozilla
Foundation by David Baron.


The reviewer's organization suggests changes to this Charter, but supports
the proposal whether or not the changes are adopted.

Additional comments about the proposal:
   We're glad to see the plan to merge Navigation Timing into Resource
Timing after level 2 is complete.  However, this only partially
addresses our concerns about confusing cross-references and
monkeypatching between a number of the specifications produced by this
working group.  It would be good to also see User Timing and Performance
Timeline merged into the same set of specifications in the next level.

A number of the group's specifications have significant privacy
implications:  they might provide mechanisms for finding information
about what other software is running on the user's computer, whether
that's web content in other origins, or entirely separate software.
This requires careful consideration of whether these features are safe.
It would be good to see the Success Criteria section of the charter both
explicitly ask the group to consider these issues, and explicitly say
that it is an acceptable result for the group to decide not to release a
specification because an acceptable solution for user privacy cannot be
found.

Likewise, some specifications in the group provide significant
additional fingerprinting surface.  When they do this, they should
explicitly point out that they are doing so, and explicitly allow
implementations to take countermeasures.  We'd like to see the Success
Criteria section of the charter encourage the group to consider
fingerprinting explicitly.


The reviewer's organization:
   - intends to review drafts as they are published and send comments.
   - intends to develop experimental implementations and send experience
reports.
   - intends to develop products based on this work.

Answers to this questionnaire can be set and changed at
https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/33280/2018-webperf-charter/ until 2018-08-03.

 Regards,

 The Automatic WBS Mailer

Received on Thursday, 2 August 2018 22:39:05 UTC