[w3ctag/design-reviews] Pickling for Async Clipboard API (#636)

Ya ya yawm TAG!

I'm requesting a TAG review of Pickling for Async Clipboard API.

Powerful web applications would like to exchange data payloads with web and native applications via the OS clipboard (copy-paste).
The existing Web Platform has an API that supports the most popular standardized data types (text, image, rich text) across all platforms. 
However, this API does not scale to the long tail of specialized formats. In particular, custom formats, non-web-standard formats like 
TIFF (a large image format), and proprietary formats like .docx (a document format), are not supported by the current Web Platform.
Pickling for Async Clipboard API aims to provide a solution to this problem, by letting web applications read and write custom, unsanitized, web-originated payloads using a standardized pickling format.

  - Explainer¹ (minimally containing user needs and example code): https://github.com/dway123/clipboard-pickling/blob/main/explainer.md#pickling-for-async-clipboard-api

  - Security and Privacy self-review²: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/ClipboardPickle/tag-security-privacy.md

  - GitHub repo (if you prefer feedback filed there): N/A
  - Primary contacts (and their relationship to the specification):
      - Anupam Snigdha (@snianu), Microsoft
      - Bo Cupp (@BoCupp-Microsoft) Microsoft
      - Darwin Huang (@dway123) Google.
  - Organization/project driving the design: Microsoft in collaboration with Google
  - External status/issue trackers for this feature (publicly visible, e.g. Chrome Status): https://chromestatus.com/feature/5649558757441536


Further details:

  - [X] I have reviewed the TAG's [Web Platform Design Principles](https://w3ctag.github.io/design-principles/)
  - The group where the incubation/design work on this is being done (or is intended to be done in the future): [Editing TF](https://github.com/w3c/editing)
  - The group where standardization of this work is intended to be done ("unknown" if not known): [Editing TF](https://github.com/w3c/editing)
  - Existing major pieces of multi-stakeholder review or discussion of this design: N/A
  - Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this design: N/A
  - This work is being funded by: Microsoft

You should also know that...

There have been discussions on Pickling Clipboard API during TPAC and also while discussing Raw Clipboard API.
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_fAgL54D0whQ497G8iL0K2kKpxiWDr3M7gXXSIS76II

Editing TF Minutes: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-editing-tf/2020Oct/0017.html


We'd prefer the TAG provide feedback as (please delete all but the desired option):

  💬 leave review feedback as a **comment in this issue** and @-notify @snianu @dway123 @BoCupp-Microsoft


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