Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Hardware Security Working Group

2016-03-02 Thread L. David Baron
I'm currently planning to submit the following as a comment on the charter (mostly based on what Richard wrote, but somewhat reworded). Please let me know if you think this needs rewording. -David [X] Opposes this charter and requests that the group not be created [Formal Objection] The prop

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Hardware Security Working Group

2016-03-01 Thread Eric Rescorla
Richard, Is an browser actually interested in implementing the output of this WG? -Ekr On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: > Mozilla should oppose the formation of this working group. The charter > fails to specify concrete deliverables, and many of the potential > delivera

Re: Proposed W3C Charter: Hardware Security Working Group

2016-03-01 Thread Richard Barnes
Mozilla should oppose the formation of this working group. The charter fails to specify concrete deliverables, and many of the potential deliverables listed have been opposed several times by browser vendors, e.g., because hardware assets exposed to JS can be used as super-cookies. If anything is