Re: Call for consensus: Marking spki and pkcs8 key format support as non-normative

On 08/01/2016 08:33 PM, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
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> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@w3.org
> <mailto:hhalpin@w3.org>> wrote:
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>     Note that pkcs8 and spki support will remain in the spec, but it
>     will just be explicitly marked as non-normative, so I don't think
>     this is a problem. Taking them out will be difficult, and some
>     developers rely on them for legacy reasons so not having them in
>     the spec may confuse developers, but we should clearly recommend
>     JWKs for future WebApps. So I think I agree with your general
>     analysis!
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> Harry,
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> I don't think "we should clearly recommend JWKs for future WebApps" is
> necessarily a good thing. So let's be careful when making such claims.
> JWK equally has interoperability issues, like ASN.1, but you don't
> seem to be proposing to move that to non-normative.
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What would you recommend as normative in terms of key formats? Just raw
keys?