- From: David Orchard <orchard@pacificspirit.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 17:02:34 -0700
- To: ashok.malhotra@oracle.com
- Cc: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, www-tag@w3.org
I had read tim's article from your first reference, and I still don't know what you mean about "the thinking seems to be moving away from policy enforcement" cheers, dave On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:53 PM, ashok malhotra <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com> wrote: > Right! I was not talking about browser policy. I was talking about data > access policies in the Web. > See Tim's article: > http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39626896,00.htm > All the best, Ashok > > > David Orchard wrote: >> >> I don't understand what you mean that the thinking seems to be moving >> away from policy enforcement. Seems to me that browsers are doing >> more policy enforcement with the addition of the W3C cross origin >> resource sharing. http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-cors-20090317/ >> >> That is indeed in the browser, but it is about security of web resources. >> >> Cheers, >> Dave >> >> On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:23 PM, ashok malhotra >> <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> See, also, Tim on security on the Semantic Web >>> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39626896,00.htm >>> >>> The article you pointed to, Noah, was about security on the browser while >>> this is >>> about security on the Web and we may do well by distinguishing them >>> because >>> the issues are >>> different. >>> >>> On the Web, the thinking seems to be moving away from policy enforcement, >>> which has proved to be challenging, to access transparency or policy >>> accountability. >>> >>> All the best, Ashok >>> >>> >>> noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> FYI: ACMQueue has an article [1] on Web security, which is one of the >>>> areas the TAG has considered [2] diving into more deeply. The article >>>> is at >>>> a survey level, but may be of interest anyway. >>>> >>>> Noah >>>> >>>> [1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1516164 >>>> [2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/03/priorities_e.jpg >>>> [3] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/03/05-whiteboard-priorities.txt >>>> >>>> -------------------------------------- >>>> Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation >>>> One Rogers Street >>>> Cambridge, MA 02142 >>>> 1-617-693-4036 >>>> -------------------------------------- >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >
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