Re: CfC approved: CSP Level 2 to Candidate Recommendation

* Mike West wrote:
>On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:50 AM, Brad Hill <hillbrad@gmail.com> wrote:
>> We note the following issues of discussion and their resolution (including
>>  open objections):
>>
>> 1) IPv6 address syntax for source matching has been deferred to CSP Level
>> 3.  The lack of support for such does not prevent it being added in the
>> future in a compatible manner, but the group felt that lacking strong
>> interest and well-defined normalization routines for IPv6 at this time was
>> not sufficient cause to delay the advancement of CSP2.
>
>I think we deferred IPv4 as well (with the explicit exception of
>`127.0.0.1`), as per Brian's suggestions in
>https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webappsec/2015Feb/0103.html,
>right? I landed
>https://github.com/w3c/webappsec/commit/c39f73a5fd93dd68de228a2e8914734c8e14a16c
>earlier this morning; I'll revert it if I misunderstood what we agreed upon.

This seems rather unacceptable to me. For one thing the suggestion above
is that implementations do something other than what is now in the pro-
posal; there also does not seem an actual rationale, and this seems to
make writing robust code a lot more difficult, even if you ignore that
apparently it is fine for implementations to do whatever they want when
they encounter IP literals.
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