[Fwd: Geolocation Last Call]

Should the TAG review this?
Note that section 4 discusses Security and Privacy Considerations but 
passes the responsibility on to the implementations.

The introductory para says:
"The API defined in this specification can be used to retrieve the 
geographic location of a hosting device. In almost all cases, this 
information also discloses the location of the user of the device, 
thereby potentially compromising the user's privacy. A conforming 
implementation of this specification must provide a mechanism that 
protects the user's privacy and this mechanism should ensure that no 
location information is made available without the user's express 
permission."

Ashok

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Geolocation Last Call
Resent-Date: 	Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:59:09 +0000
Resent-From: 	chairs@w3.org
Date: 	Wed, 8 Jul 2009 14:58:29 +0200
From: 	Angel Machín <angel.machin@gmail.com>
To: 	janina@rednote.net, art.barstow@nokia.com, chaals@opera.com, 
Mary_Ellen_Zurko@notesdev.ibm.com, tlr@w3.org, dom@w3.org, dsr@w3.org, 
chris@w3.org, daniel.appelquist@vodafone.com, 
dahl@conversational-technologies.com, rbarnes@bbn.com, acooper@cdt.org, 
bondi@omtp.org, jferrai@us.ibm.com, Lars Erik Bolstad 
<lbolstad@opera.com>, Matt Womer <mdw@w3.org>, chairs@w3.org



Hello Chairs,

On behalf of Lars Erik Bolstad, the other co-chair of this WG, and I:

The Geolocation Working Group has published the Geolocation API
Specification as a Last Call Working Draft on 7 July 2009:
	http://www.w3.org/TR/geolocation-API/

Feedback on this document would be appreciated through 31 July 2009
via mail to public-geolocation@w3.org.

In particular we are requesting review from the Web Application WG,
Device APIs, Web Security Context, Ubiquitous Web Applications, Mobile
Web Best Practices, Hypertext Coordination, Protocols and Formats
Working Group and also GEOPRIV, BONDI and OpenAJAX Alliance.

The Group made the decision to go to Last Call:
	http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-geolocation/2009Jun/0161.html

No patent disclosures have been made for this specification.

Thanks,

Angel Machin
Geolocation WG co-Chair



-- 
All the best, Ashok

Received on Wednesday, 8 July 2009 20:04:29 UTC