Re: [REFERRER] Call for Consensus: Referrer Policy to Candidate Recommenation

Great, thanks!

We'll look forward to getting the transition request[1] and work to
schedule a transition call in early January.

--Wendy
[1]
<https://services.w3.org/xslt?xmlfile=https://www.w3.org/2005/08/01-transitions2015.html&xslfile=https://www.w3.org/2005/08/transitions2015.xsl&docstatus=cr-tr>

On 12/23/2016 08:00 AM, Jochen Eisinger wrote:
> Assuming it's a month later, the prepared doc is here:
> https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-referrer-policy/published/2017-01-12-REFERRER-CR.html
> 
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 9:51 AM Jochen Eisinger <eisinger@google.com> wrote:
> 
>> What should I use as deadline date?
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 7:11 PM Brad Hill <hillbrad@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Great!  This CfC successfully completed.  Thank you for your patience.
>> Can you prepare a CR draft with a date of January 12th and we'll get it in
>> the publication queue?
>>
>> :)
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 7:01 AM Jochen Eisinger <eisinger@google.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> The PR was closed, and I landed the updates to the "integration with CSS"
>> section (and a long tail of changes to the metadata section to make
>> specberus happy), and managed to push a new WD to
>> https://www.w3.org/TR/2016/WD-referrer-policy-20161222/
>>
>> best
>> -jochen
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:07 PM Brad Hill <hillbrad@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I am excited that Referrer Policy is ready for CR.  One thing I'd like to
>> consider is some minor changes to the algorithms related to determine a
>> request's referrer in support of https://github.com/whatwg/html/pull/1917
>>  and https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/1918, which suggest that
>> location.ancestorOrigins should also be redacted according to a parent
>> document's default referrer policy.
>>
>> I believe it would be enough to list the values of Request used in that
>> algorithm explicit inputs. I'll try and put together a PR for that today.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 1:53 PM Evan J Johnson <e@ejj.io> wrote:
>>
>> Ah thanks Emily. I can see it's a hard question to answer now. Whatever is
>> processed last, but with one edge cases. If I understand the precedence is
>> (from highest to lowest):
>>
>> 0. ReferrerPolicy is no-referrer, or rel="noreferrer".
>> 1. Implicit, via inheritence.
>> 3. Any other referrerpolicy attribute that is not "no-referrer"
>> 4. Meta-tag.
>> 5.HTTP Header
>>
>> evan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016, at 09:09 AM, Emily Stark wrote:
>>
>> Hi Evan,
>> If the browser recognizes the policy in a meta tag as a valid policy, then
>> it would override any policy set by a header for the document. This is
>> mentioned in
>> https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-referrer-policy/#unknown-policy-values
>> ("the value of the latest one will be used"), though I'd happily take
>> suggestions on how to make it clearer!
>> Emily
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 1:13 AM, Evan J Johnson <e@ejj.io> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Glad to see this is being finished!
>>
>> I'm curious the order of precedence of the 5 different ways to set a
>> referrer policy.
>>
>> This is very confusing in my opinion (something I will begin to say about
>> a lot of specs). The spec reads like the following is possible, unless I'm
>> missing something:
>>
>> 1. Blanket referrer policy set by header.
>> 2. Different referrer policy set by meta tag.
>> 3. Third policy as an attribute.
>>
>> I would assume the the most specific policy would win, in this case the
>> noreferrer attribute, but which policy wins out of 1 and 2?
>>
>>
>> evan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 15, 2016, at 09:18 PM, Emily Stark wrote:
>>
>> This is a call for consensus of the WebAppSec WG to request advancement of
>> Referrer Policy to Candidate Recommendation.
>>
>> The text for the proposed CR draft is to be the Editor's Draft at:
>> https://w3c.github.io/webappsec-referrer-policy/
>>
>> This call for consensus will expire on 23-October-2016. Positive feedback
>> is encouraged and lack of feedback is considered "no objection". Please
>> send feedback to: public-webappsec@w3.org with a subject line beginning
>> with '[REFERRER]'.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Emily
>>
>>
>>
>>
> 


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