[webauthn] Pull Request: Precisize "platform" and "device" terminology

• From: Emil Lundberg via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
• Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:06:41 +0000
• To: public-webauthn@w3.org
• Message-ID: <pull_request.opened-201319046-1531494400-sysbot+gh@w3.org>

emlun has just submitted a new pull request for https://github.com/w3c/webauthn:

== Precisize "platform" and "device" terminology ==
This mitigates #358 and #462.

- Add "client platform" definition
- Rewrite/remove most unqualified uses of "platform"; main exception is "platform-provided" in the context of the Android attestation statement formats
- Rewrite/qualify most uses of "device"

This should eliminate from #358:

- Platform
  - a platform
  - underlying platform
  - underlying OS platform
  - [this|the] client platform
  - client's platform
  - [this|the] platform
  - user agent and/or platform

and from #462:

- CLIENT:
  - client
  - client device
  - client platform
  - (not "client-side", but #997 takes care of most of what remains of that)
- Device
  - computing device
  - user's computing device
  - see also 'client device'
- PLATFORM:
  - All sub-items except:
    - Android "N" or later platform
    - Android platforms


See https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/pull/998

Received on Friday, 13 July 2018 15:06:47 UTC