Re: keygen and client-certificates document available

Melvin Carvalho <[email protected]> Tue, 1 Dec 2015 01:44:33 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.tag
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On 30 November 2015 at 23:21, Travis Leithead <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi folks!
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> In September, Tim posted about <keygen> [1] which started a conversation
> about it on this list. The TAG has since met and discussed this topic, and
> we now have a document published with our latest thoughts. This document
> has our rough consensus at this point, and we additionally welcome feedback
> from you. As such, we’ve put the doc in a Repo [2] that has an issue
> tracker, so feel free to open issues against this document and we’ll do our
> best to resolve them. Thanks!
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> Keygen and client certificates document:
> http://w3ctag.github.io/client-certificates/
>

+1 Excellent work!

I particularly liked section 4.  "This principle is correctly applied to
resources such as cameras and microphones in WebRTC and Geolocation, which
all ask for permission from the user before enabling access".

In this context, that made a lot of sense to me, and seems to be the path
to a solution.


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> [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2015Sep/0000.html
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> [2] https://github.com/w3ctag/client-certificates
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