[webappsec] Teleconference Agenda: 27-Jan-2016

For this week's call I'd like to set a meta-agenda about how we do our work.

As I look over the set of specs the group is doing to recruit editors to
present at our calls, I see that there is a great deal "in flight" and
unfortunately much of that is "stale" by the W3C's definitions.  (no update
to a public WD in >3 months)

We've been great at coming up with and incubating new ideas, and generally
don't proceed to FPWD unless there is expressed interest from at least two
browser vendors in implementing, but I think we've gotten ahead of our
skis.  I am concerned that we may be spreading our efforts too thin instead
of delivering concrete and usable improvements to the developer community
which they can count on being available in more than one browser.

I think the most important thing we can do to set the pace for the coming
year is to get some feedback from the user agent implementer community on
how the work we are doing here fits with and influences their roadmaps, and
what we can do to be better aligned and drive meaningful change.

I think that Mike has already identified some key areas of improvement with
CSP3 by targeting smaller, more modular specs, but even on some quite small
ones like Mixed Content and Secure Contexts, we're still at something of a
standstill.   Are there things we should officially "put on the shelf"?
Does the model of letting individual editor effort drive the direction of
the group make the most sense going ahead, or should we look at more of an
"incubator" model as is the rest of the W3C, and only start "standardizing"
things once they have at least two prototypical implementations?

How should we proceed with ideas like "Safe Node"?

Please bring your ideas, critiques and enthusiasms on Wednesday for us to
discuss.

thanks,

Brad


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