Re: Updated charters, with tentative time line

On Web Security Context Baseline,

I'm a bit worried about: 
"a minimal set of security context information "

It seems to imply a single small set of items will be required of any user 
agent. I don't think it will work out that way, though I do think the 
alternatives will collapse to a small conceptual set, and that their 
presence or lack will be important to users. Things like user/web agent 
history, and strength and meaningfulness of identification/authentication. 


A first public working draft implies to me that that version at least will 
target well known web agents (browsers as opposed to rich client) and core 
protocols (HTTPS as opposed to Web Services). Are these in fact very 
aggressive deadlines for a predominantly tactical WG? 

          Mez



public-usable-authentication-request@w3.org wrote on 08/07/2006 12:39:11 
PM:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I've taken another stab at the scope and deliverable sections
> of the charter drafts, and added tentative time lines to these.
> 
>   http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/wsc-charter
>   http://www.w3.org/2005/Security/htmlauth-charter
> 
> For the security context information baseline group, I've tried
> to introduce a clearer partition between the question what to
> display (and how to do it nicely), and techniques to make that
> kind of display more robust against spoofing.  (Thanks to Jeff
> Nelson (Google) for his suggestions.)
> 
> The form annotations project has seen some general clean-up.
> 
> The time line (identical for both groups at this point) is
> essentially the usual 3-month heartbeat requirement for public
> working drafts, with two public WDs before last call.  A call
> for participation is assumed to go out in October, and an
> initial face-to-face meeting (for both groups; hopefully, we
> can find a way to co-locate these) is assumed for the week of
> 13 November.
> 
> 
>    Caveat emptor: Please note that, at this 
>    point, these dates are working hypotheses!
> 
> 
> Comments would, as always, be useful,
> -- 
> Thomas Roessler, W3C   <tlr@w3.org>
>