Re: Geolocation Last Call

After reading Section 4 of the Working Draft [1], I am more worried  
than before.

It does not engender any confidence, even by using the term  
"consideration", for the safety and awareness of the end user's privacy.

Perhaps we now need a PLING Note on "Best Practices for Privacy  
Awareness" ?


Renato

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/


On 8 Jul 2009, at 23:09, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> No explicit request for review by PLING, but I think it would be  
> fine for this IG to tell them that you want to do a review -- if  
> that is indeed the case.
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> Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>
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> Begin forwarded message:
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>> From: Angel Machín <angel.machin@gmail.com>
>> Date: 8 July 2009 14:58:29 CEDT
>> To: janina@rednote.net, art.barstow@nokia.com, chaals@opera.com,  Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com 
>> , tlr@w3.org, dom@w3.org, dsr@w3.org,  chris@w3.org, daniel.appelquist@vodafone.com 
>> ,  dahl@conversational-technologies.com, rbarnes@bbn.com, acooper@cdt.org 
>> ,  bondi@omtp.org, jferrai@us.ibm.com, Lars Erik Bolstad <lbolstad@opera.com 
>> >,  Matt Womer <mdw@w3.org>, chairs@w3.org
>> Subject: Geolocation Last Call
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>> Hello Chairs,
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>> On behalf of Lars Erik Bolstad, the other co-chair of this WG, and I:
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>> The Geolocation Working Group has published the Geolocation API
>> Specification as a Last Call Working Draft on 7 July 2009:
>> 	http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/
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>> Feedback on this document would be appreciated through 31 July 2009
>> via mail to public-geolocation@w3.org.
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>> In particular we are requesting review from the Web Application WG,
>> Device APIs, Web Security Context, Ubiquitous Web Applications,  
>> Mobile
>> Web Best Practices, Hypertext Coordination, Protocols and Formats
>> Working Group and also GEOPRIV, BONDI and OpenAJAX Alliance.
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>> The Group made the decision to go to Last Call:
>> 	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2009Jun/0161.html
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>> No patent disclosures have been made for this specification.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Angel Machin
>> Geolocation WG co-Chair
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Cheers...  Renato Iannella
NICTA