Re: "industry standards"

Well sure, if I read the whole thing.

:)

Apologies,

J

On 9-Aug-07, at 8:37 AM, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> On 2007-08-08 15:02:51 -0400, Johnathan Nightingale wrote:
>
>> That clause was mostly intended as preventative medicine against
>> cynical implementors who declare conformance by surfacing
>> identity information, but who make no attempt to assess the
>> quality of that information even as far as "CAs we trust vs. CAs
>> we don't vs. Self-signed."
>
> Isn't that aspect covered by this language in the current editor's
> draft?
>
> @@Web Security Context@@
> Editor's Draft $Date: 2007/08/08 18:21:55 $
>
> 5.1.2 Identity Signal Content
>
>   "Information displayed in the identity signal MUST be derived from
>   attested certificates, from user agent state, or be otherwise
>   authenticated. Web user agents MUST NOT use information as part of
>   the [[ identity signal ]] that is taken from unauthenticated or
>   untrusted sources."
>
>   ...
>
> -- http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/drafts/rec/rewrite.html#signal-content
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>

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Johnathan Nightingale
Human Shield
johnath@mozilla.com

Received on Thursday, 9 August 2007 13:55:57 UTC