Re: WebCrypto - In "progress" since 2012

> On 30 Apr 2016, at 14:11, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com> wrote:
> 
> On 04/19/2016 01:30 AM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
>> WebCrypto - In "progress" since 2012 ... and still no interoperable 
>> standard.
> 
> On 04/30/2016 12:34 AM, Harry Halpin wrote:
>> For example, your WebPKI work to reproduce PKI in XML has, I believe,
>> zero adoption.
> 
> On 04/30/2016 04:08 AM, Henry Story wrote:
>> Harry is actually acting as a conceptual guard placed in front of a 
>> conceptual door.
> 
> Hey guys, it would be more productive to have this discussion without
> the hyperbole and personal attacks (those just make your arguments easy
> to dismiss/ignore).
> 
> There are sections of each of your emails that are very healthy
> discussion points. Constructive criticism is good, but let's please not
> attack the work of other people trying very hard to solve a problem.
> 
> We all want better security, open standards, and massive adoption. Not
> all of us take the exact same path to get there, and that's okay.
> 
> We're a community of individuals working together to solve some of the
> toughest technical problems on the Web. We'll make faster progress by
> focusing on the technical issues as well as strategies for adoption.

Certainly. I am only asking that Harry stand up to the standards
required by W3C Staff, and not just make statements such as the following

>> There isn't such a thing really as 'trusted UI' that
>> users understand and there isn't a unified thing such as 'trusted storage.'

but actually point to evidence backing up that statement. 

Given that this is such an important sticking point, it seems that 
this will require a group to be formed to carefully go over the 
arguments in a principled manner. Somewhat along the lines of what 
the W3C TAG is doing on client certificates

https://github.com/w3ctag/client-certificates

If these arguments have already been made, I'd like to see a conclusive
document regarding that. Pointers to e-mail threads won't do.

Henry


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