Re: Clarity over direction of work on runtime and security model?

On 17/09/13 15:54, Marcos Caceres wrote:
>
> On Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Dave Raggett wrote:
>
>> I've been asked for a clear statement over the direction of work in
>> SysApps on the runtime and security model and would appreciate your help
>> with this. I understand that the current editor's draft for the runtime
>> and security model specification is likely to need substantial
>> modifications before it can be transitioned into a First Public Working
>> Draft. Can anyone explain what the problem areas are that are holding us
>> back?
>
> It's too hard a problem - with little return if we standardize it.
> Runtimes already support their own runtime security models… the only
> thing that might be useful there is some of the lifecycle events, but
> those apply equally to web pages and packaged apps (so should really
> be defined in HTML).
>
>> We have already split off the packaging model to Web Apps and the
>> Application Lifecycle and Events to the spec Anssi and Kenneth are
>> editing. What about the use cases and requirements -- where are these
>> documented and could we progress them separately?
>>
>
> Yes, this is what Anssi and Kenneth have been doing in their doc.

So am I correct in that we don't expect to have a standard covering the 
permissions requested in app manifests?  Won't this cause interop 
problems for system applications across different run-times?

Many thanks,

-- 
Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett

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