[presentation-api] Is a new Permission type required for presentation display availability?

mfoltzgoogle has just created a new issue for 
https://github.com/w3c/presentation-api:

== Is a new Permission type required for presentation display 
availability? ==
This issue considers whether it's required to add an explicit enum to 
the Permissions API [1] to track the request by a page to monitor 
presentation display availability via the Presentation API [2] (as a 
followup to 
https://github.com/w3c/presentation-api/issues/45#issuecomment-153300990).

Currently, user agents may deny the request for continuous monitoring 
of screen availability based on power consumption considerations.  
Based on TAG review of the API [3], there was a sense that some user 
agents may also want to make this an explicit permission granted by 
the user, to allow the user to control the amount of information 
discoverable about their network environment.

We'll add discussion here, and then make an issue/PR against the 
Permissions API if necessary.

@mounirlamouri @marcoscaceres do you have any feedback?  What is the 
criteria for including a new permission type in the API?

[1] https://w3c.github.io/permissions/
[2] http://w3c.github.io/presentation-api/
[3] https://www.w3.org/2015/10/29-webscreens-minutes.html#item02

Please view or discuss this issue at 
https://github.com/w3c/presentation-api/issues/255 using your GitHub 
account

Received on Tuesday, 2 February 2016 00:57:36 UTC