Re: [w3c web crypto WG] cfc for managing new algorithms in the Web Crypto API spec --> answer expected by 15th of novembre

On 10/31/2015 04:15 PM, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
> I'm unclear of the value - to the WG or to the community at large - to
> be publishing algorithms removed from the spec due to lack of
> interest. Given that we regularly see feedback from the public related
> to confusion about the W3C process and workflow, my sense is that no
> matter how much we try to disclaim it as "For historic purposes only",
> people will see such Notes and expect them to be implemented / ask
> that they be implemented, when it's very clear they won't be.

There's two classes of algorithms:

1) Ones that *may* or even *likely* will have two interoperable
implementations in the future (RSA-PSS for example)

2) Others than may *never* be implemented.

If folks want to keep the the second out, just mention which ones you
think they are and we can keep them out the Proposed Note.

     cheers,
         harry

>
> On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 9:57 AM, GALINDO Virginie
> <Virginie.Galindo@gemalto.com <mailto:Virginie.Galindo@gemalto.com>>
> wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     This email is triggering a call for consensus, based on the recent
>     discussions we had with working groups members. It addresses how
>     the WG will handle the algorithms removed from the Web Crypto API,
>     and the new algorithms foreseen to be integrated in the main Web
>     Crypto API specification.
>
>     One should note that using the method of a "Proposed Edited
>     Recommendation", we can continue to edit the WebCrypto API to add
>     new algorithms in after the Spec has reached Recommendation
>     without going all the way back to a new Working Draft but simply
>     returning to a new Proposed Recommendation [1].
>
>     Your answer to the following proposal are expected by the 15th of
>     novembre,  23:59 UTC.
>     If no objection is received, the proposal will be endorsed.
>
>     We are suggesting the Working Group take up a new
>     *non-Recommendation* specification called "Proposed Algorithms for
>     Web Cryptography API Note", which will be a container for the
>     algorithms not integrated in the Web Crypto API.
>
>     Like any other non-Rec Note, the document is to have this text
>     attached:
>     "Publication as a Working Group Note does not imply endorsement by
>     the W3C Membership. This is a draft document and may be updated,
>     replaced or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is
>     inappropriate to cite this document as other than work in progress."
>
>     The Proposed Algorithm Note is to be composed of algorithms
>     removed from the Web Crypto Candidate Recommendation and any
>     additional specifications that the Working Group believes are
>     well-defined but have not yet demonstrated two interoperable
>     implementations. Once any algorithm in the Proposed Algorithm Note
>     has two interoperable implementations *and* is judged to be
>     sufficiently mature in terms of specification, the algorithm can
>     be added to the Web Crypto API by the editors of the Web Crypto API.
>
>     This will likely be the main activity of the Working Group after
>     the Web Crypto API goes into Recommendation status and the Web
>     Crypto Working Group is moved into 'maintenance mode.'
>
>     Virginie & Harry
>
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