Re: [w3ctag/design-reviews] Permission Delegation (#225)

On a different topic related to this specification:

Currently the permissions API doesn't describe permissions that are granted entirely by the act of making some other selection.  For example, anything involving a filepicker is really a permission grant, but the permission grant happens implicitly when the user chooses a file.  Likewise, [Screen Capture](https://w3c.github.io/mediacapture-screen-share/) can involve permission grants that are implicit results of choosing a window to screenshare.  (From a UI perspective, these implicitly-granted permissions are often better since it's clearer to the user what's being granted.)

If permissions are thought of only as a thing that is requested and its state queried, then it's understandable that they're not in the permissions API.  But it seems like once we're talking about delegating permissions, then we do need to think of these things as permissions, and think about whether a document delegates them to its subframes or not.

That, in turn, leads me to think they should be described somewhere and given names... but where?

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