RE: [W3C TCP and UDP Socket API]: Status and home for this specification

Hi again Frederick,

I plan to issue a CFC for moving the TCP and UDP Socket API specification to a CG. However, before that, do you think that one option could be DAP? I assume that would require a modified charter.

BR
  Claes



Claes Nilsson
Master Engineer - Web Research
Advanced Application Lab, Technology

Sony Mobile Communications
Tel: +46 70 55 66 878
claes1.nilsson@sonymobile.com

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nilsson, Claes1
> Sent: den 7 april 2015 16:08
> To: 'Frederick Hirsch'
> Cc: public-sysapps@w3.org; public-webapps; Device APIs Working Group;
> Domenic Denicola; slightlyoff@chromium.org; yasskin@gmail.com
> Subject: RE: [W3C TCP and UDP Socket API]: Status and home for this
> specification
> 
> Hi Frederick,
> 
> The implementations I am aware of are:
> 
> * Mozilla FFOS: There is an ongoing implementation of the UDP API. See
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=745283

> * Crosswalk: An experimental implementation of the old, non-stream-
> based version. See https://crosswalk-

> project.org/documentation/apis/web_apis.html
> 
> There is no public web page with this information.
> 
> BR
>   Claes
> 
> 
> 
> Claes Nilsson
> Master Engineer - Web Research
> Advanced Application Lab, Technology
> 
> Sony Mobile Communications
> Tel: +46 70 55 66 878
> claes1.nilsson@sonymobile.com
> 
> sonymobile.com
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frederick Hirsch [mailto:w3c@fjhirsch.com]
> > Sent: den 7 april 2015 13:53
> > To: Nilsson, Claes1
> > Cc: public-sysapps@w3.org; public-webapps; Device APIs Working Group;
> > Domenic Denicola; slightlyoff@chromium.org; yasskin@gmail.com
> > Subject: Re: [W3C TCP and UDP Socket API]: Status and home for this
> > specification
> >
> > > Lastly, if there is a decision to continue to work on this API I
> can
> > remain as main editor. However, I can currently not commit to more
> > extensive tasks such as implementation and test cases.
> >
> > Claes
> >
> > Do you have information on W3C members committed to implementation &
> > test cases going forward? This might be useful before considering
> > venue for the work and detailed issues. (Is there a public web page
> > with information on current implementations?)
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > regards, Frederick
> >
> > Frederick Hirsch
> >
> > www.fjhirsch.com
> > @fjhirsch
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Apr 1, 2015, at 5:22 AM, Nilsson, Claes1
> > <Claes1.Nilsson@sonymobile.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Related to the recent mail thread about the SysApps WG and its
> > deliverables I would like to make a report of the status of the TCP
> > and UDP Socket API, http://www.w3.org/2012/sysapps/tcp-udp-sockets/.

> > >
> > > Note that this specification is still being worked on. Latest
> merged
> > PR was March 30. I think it is time for a new Public Working Draft.
> > >
> > > This API is used to send and receive data over the network using
> TCP
> > or UDP.
> > > Examples of use cases for the API are:
> > >  • An email client which communicates with SMTP, POP3 and
> > IMAP servers
> > >  • An irc client which communicates with irc servers
> > >  • Implementing an ssh app
> > >  • Communicating with existing consumer hardware, like
> > internet connected TVs
> > >  • Game servers
> > >  • Peer-to-peer applications
> > >  • Local network multicast service discovery, e.g. UPnP/SSDP
> > and mDNS
> > >
> > > The TCP and UDP Socket API is a phase 1 deliverable of the SysApps
> WG.
> > SysApps was originally chartered to provide a runtime and security
> > model so that it would be possible to open up sensitive APIs to
> > SysApps enabled runtimes. Accordingly, it was assumed that the TCP
> and
> > UDP Socket API would be exposed to such a “trusted runtime”. Looking
> > at existing TCP and UDP Socket APIs they are implemented in
> > proprietary web runtimes, FFOS and Chrome, which provide a security
> > model for installed packaged web runtimes.
> > >
> > > Today we can conclude that it has not been possible to standardize
> a
> > runtime and security model in SysApps. However, there still seems to
> > be an interest in the TCP and UDP Socket API, at least from
> > individuals at Google and Mozilla. For example, there has been
> > extensive work, supported by Google, to adapt this API to the Streams
> > API specification, https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/.

> > >
> > > To meet the issue that we don’t have a standardized secure “web
> > system applications” runtime and that the current open web browser
> > sandbox is not secure enough for this kind of API (but the security
> > features are evolving through the Web Application Security Working
> > Group) I recently added “permission methods”, partly inspired by the
> > W3C Push API. A webapp could for example request permission to create
> > a TCP connection to a certain host. The ambition is to isolate the
> > permission system from the socket interfaces specifications and the
> > manner in which permission to use this API is given differs depending
> > on the type of web runtime the API is implemented in. For example, a
> > web runtime for secure installed web applications may be able to open
> > up this API so that no explicit user content is needed, while an
> > implementation in a web browser may use a combination of web security
> > mechanisms, such as secure transport (https:), content security
> > policies (CSP), signed manifest, certificate pinning, and user
> consent
> > to open up the API.
> > >
> > > If SysApps WG is closed and the scope of W3C is limited to APIs
> that
> > could be exposed the “normal browser context” (which is evolving,
> once
> > again referring to Web Apps Sec WG) a new home for this API could be
> > the Device API WG. A Community Group, similar to what we have for Web
> > Bluetooth and NFC, would also be a possibility.
> > >
> > > WDYT?
> > >
> > > Lastly, if there is a decision to continue to work on this API I
> can
> > remain as main editor. However, I can currently not commit to more
> > extensive tasks such as implementation and test cases.
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >   Claes
> > >
> > >
> > > Claes Nilsson
> > > Master Engineer - Web Research
> > > Advanced Application Lab, Technology
> > >
> > > Sony Mobile Communications
> > > Tel: +46 70 55 66 878
> > > claes1.nilsson@sonymobile.com
> > >
> > > sonymobile.com
> > >
> > > <image003.png>

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