ISSUE-46: widely deployed baseline, yes; usage and presentation, yes (pubic comment)

Issue 46 has been corrected.
 
Subject:  widely deployed baseline, yes; usage and presentation, yes
(From pubic comment)
was
Subject: define extension interface for content-scanning tools 



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content-scanning tools (public comment)
	
	

	Under "New security information", this is out of scope.  
	
	          Mez
	
	Mary Ellen Zurko, STSM, IBM Lotus CTO Office       (t/l
333-6389)
	Lotus/WPLC Security Strategy and Patent Innovation Architect
	
	
	
	
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	ISSUE-46: define extension interface for content-scanning tools
(public comment)
	
	http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/Group/track/issues/46
	
	Raised by: Bill Doyle
	On product: Note: use cases etc.
	
	>From public comments
	raised by: Al Gilman Alfred.S.Gilman@ieee.org
	
	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-usable-
	authentication/2007Apr/0000.html
	
	define extension interface for content-scanning tools 
	where it says, in 5.5 Content based detection
	The Working Group will not recommend any checks on
	  the content served by web sites.
	please consider
	I don't think that you mean people shouldn't check signatures
on signed 
	content.  What I think that you mean is that the filter queries
or trip 
	thresholds
	for statistical techniques such as you discuss will not be
published by the 
	group.
	
	You should consider providing a programmatic interface (perhaps
a hypothesis 
	lattice compatible with what a voice recognizer looks like in
EMMA) for such 
	tools to contribute to rational decision making about when to
raise a warning, 
	and in addition an interface where they can contribute
message-content to the 
	security infoset.
	Why? 
	The free-content areas drive trust.  Confidence schemes work in
this domain.  
	So there is an enduring value-added niche for such techniques.
The group 
	should seek to define interfaces whereby third-party software
can contribute 
	its findings to the rollup summarized by your recommended
presentation.  
	Otherwise we will continue with the plethora of security
helpers waving 
	plackards in our faces.