Assumptions / Design Principles / User test verification

Hi all,

The wiki section at:

http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/wiki/NoteAssumptions

starts with text:

"""
Making security usable in general is still a nascent area for research
[Security and Usability]. There are a limited number of worked examples
in deployed products to learn from. There are a larger number of
attempts with unclear results to learn from. There are no worked
examples of standards of usable security to emulate. Thus it is
incumbent upon us to make clear how we will support and validate our
recommendations. Traditional standards efforts do so from a combination
of previous deployment experience, applying engineering design
expertise, implementation, and interoperability testing. Our
recommendations will be validated from a similiar combination, in the
areas of both security and usability.
"""

The first half of the above paragraph seems to be saying that we don't
have any of the stuff that the second half of the paragraph says we will
be relying on. Can anyone clarify what the intended meaning is?

Thanks,
Tyler

Received on Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:39:27 UTC