RE: HTTPS at W3C.

Please make sure that if W3C moves all tools, specs, references, etc to https, that users and editors should not always have to be online to use the W3C specs and tools. For example, we should retain the ability to use those tools and specs:

1)      In offline or cached mode

2)      From local servers, e.g. behind my home or corporate firewall

Today, it may take a little hacking to achieve these goals but at least it’s possible. It should not get harder.

Thanks,
Bryan Sullivan | Service Standards | AT&T

From: Daniel Appelquist [mailto:appelquist@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2014 7:00 AM
To: TAG List
Cc: Wendy Seltzer; Brad Hill; Ted Guild; Mike West
Subject: Re: HTTPS at W3C.

[Adding Ted Guild on CC]

Very much in agreement and this also lines up with the TAG’s recent rumination on secure origins and general securing of the web (against pervasive monitoring among other threats). I believe there is some ongoing work on this in the W3C systems team - maybe Ted could comment?

Dan

On 17 Nov 2014, at 11:37, Mike West <mkwst@google.com<mailto:mkwst@google.com>> wrote:

Hello, www-tag!

I just copy/pasted Mixed Content's last call URL (http://www.w3.org/TR/mixed-content/) into an email, and I'm sad that it can't be served over HTTPS.

Note that the WHATWG has moved to HTTPS/HSTS (https://fetch.spec.whatwg.org/). IETF supports HTTPS (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-west-origin-cookies-00). W3C is the only major standards body that I care about that actively redirects from HTTPS to HTTP. We're setting a bad example.

It would be wonderful if we could fix that. Based on earlier conversations with Wendy (CC'd), it sounds like there was progress on this topic earlier in the year. Perhaps folks on this list could either share details of a migration plan, or even solid timelines? :)

Thanks!

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