Re: [Execution and Security Model] Proposal from Samsung Electronics from Janusz Majnert on 2013-02-26 (public-sysapps@w3.org from February 2013)

From: Janusz Majnert <j.majnert@samsung.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:02:19 +0100
To: public-sysapps@w3.org
Message-id: <512C882B.8080305@samsung.com>

>> Wouldn't it be better to separate this level into two and allow
>> implementations to configure how the APIs are distributed among them?
>
> I think that would be worse than a "all or nothing situation" because
> some runtime will allow Foo API to be used by any installed applications
> and some runtime will not and at the end APP A that uses Foo API will
> only be usable on the runtimes allowing it to run without being privileged.

My point exactly. Having the implementations or operators customise 
which APIs are available to which apps could minimise legal and cultural 
issues we get if we impose a single model ourselves.

/Janusz

Received on Tuesday, 26 February 2013 10:02:55 UTC