Re: [whatwg/storage] Clarify storage infrastructure (#86)

@domenic commented on this pull request.



> -<p>This standard primarily concerns itself with <dfn export id=site-storage>storage</dfn>.
+<p>This standard primarily concerns itself with storage.
+
+
+<h3 id=storage-units>Storage units</h3>
+
+<p>A <dfn>storage type</dfn> is "<code>storage</code>" or "<code>session-storage</code>".
+
+<p>A <dfn>storage key</dfn> is an <a for=/>origin</a>. [[HTML]]
+
+<p class=XXX>This is expected to change, see
+<a href="https://privacycg.github.io/storage-partitioning/">Client-Side Storage Partitioning</a>.
+
+<p>A <dfn id=site-storage-unit>storage unit</dfn> is the least granular unit of storage, other than
+the user agent. It holds a <dfn for="storage unit">map</dfn>, which is a <a for=/>map</a> of
+<a for=/>ASCII strings</a> to <a>abstract storage buckets</a>.

It'd be good to state that, and probably relax the ASCII requirement then.

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