Fw: app: URI - Request for review of privacy aspects

FYI… would be great if others could join that are interested in this topic...  

Forwarded message:

> From: Christine Runnegar <runnegar@isoc.org>
> To: Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com>
> Cc: public-privacy (W3C mailing list) <public-privacy@w3.org>
> Date: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 7:49:16 AM
> Subject: Re: app: URI - Request for review of privacy aspects
>  
> Dear Marcos,
>  
> Thank you for bringing this request to PING.  
>  
> It would be really helpful for us to have a preliminary conversation with the appropriate person(s) from the SysApps WG about the draft specification (e.g. its purpose, its intended use, its design, any already identified security/privacy issues etc.).
>  
> Our next teleconference is this Thursday at UTC 16 (6 pm in Geneva). Would you and/or your colleagues in the SysApp WG be available to walk us through the draft specification on this call?
>  
> Kind regards,
> Christine and Tara (co-chairs)
>  
> On May 20, 2013, at 7:12 PM, Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com (mailto:w3c@marcosc.com)>
> wrote:
>  
> > Hi,
> > The Systems Application Working Group would appreciate if PING could review the Privacy and Security considerations section of the app:// URI specification (or the spec in general - it's a very small spec, promise!):  
> >  
> > http://app-uri.sysapps.org/#privacy
> >  
> > This URI scheme is currently in use in Firefox OS for "packaged applications". I'd also like to note that similar URI schemes are used by Microsoft (Windows 8), Google (in Chrome), and currently by Opera's extension platform (widget://). We are trying to unify these[*] by hopefully addressing some of the privacy issues.  
> >  
> > Any comments or feedback you might have would be greatly appreciate.
> >  
> > Please send comments either directly to me, or to the sysapps mailing list: public-sysapps@w3.org (mailto:public-sysapps@w3.org). If it's more convenient for us to join your teleconferences or anything, just let me know and I'll make myself available for that.  
> >  
> > Many thanks!  
> >  
> > [*] http://xkcd.com/927/ :)
> > --  
> > Marcos Caceres
>  
>

Received on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 17:10:29 UTC