Re: Proposal to work on Geolocation

The WebAPI WG seems like the best venue.

- Original message -
Hi, Chaals- Charles McCathieNevile wrote (on 5/27/08 6:3...



On 5/27/08, Doug Schepers <schepers@w3.org> wrote:
>
> Hi, Chaals-
>
> Charles McCathieNevile wrote (on 5/27/08 6:34 PM):
>>
>> On Tue, 27 May 2008 23:38:37 +0200, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I could not find record of any such objection in the Advisory
>>> Committee mailing list archives, or any record of an official W3C
>>> decision on this point. As Team contact, could you please explain who
>>> made this decision and on what basis?
>>
>> In which case I presume that someone used their ability to reply to the
>> Team privately instead of being open about what they wanted. This
>> disturbs me a little since it increases the resources and coordination
>> required, IMHO, to do what is a pretty simple piece of work.
>
> I think you may be overstating how simple this is, for what it's worth.
>   Exposing coordinates sounds simple, sure... but the security and
> privacy implications are stickier, as is the legal landscape (both in
> terms of privacy laws and of IPR).
>
>
>> For the record, Opera would also like to see the geolocation work take
>> place inside the webAPI group and is unhappy that it has been removed
>> from the proposed charter for Web Apps.
>
> Noted.  I will convey your sentiments to the Team.
>
> Regards-
> -Doug Schepers
> W3C Team Contact, SVG, CDF, and WebAPI
>
>

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