Re: ISSUE-190: axe relaxed path validation?

• From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
• Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 17:29:37 +0100
• To: WSC WG <public-wsc-wg@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <4821D8F1.5070308@cs.tcd.ie>

Bugger. Just escaped a vastly over-running meeting (regrets;-)

I'll argue for keeping relaxed. Will look over the minutes
and do that on the list.

S.

Thomas Roessler wrote:
> Discussion of ISSUE-190 on the call today led to almost-agreement
> that relaxed path validation should be axed.
> 
> The side effect of that would be to downgrade the error interaction
> for expired certificates in 5.5.1 to warning messages (aka idiot
> boxes).  The current draft has "danger", i.e., hard failure.
> 
> I understand that we'll try to get closure on this issue at the
> face-to-face.

Received on Wednesday, 7 May 2008 16:30:05 UTC