David,
On Jan 4, 2008, at 2:37 PM, ext David Orchard wrote:
I'll ask the Mark Nottingham question, where is the requirements doc
that the WG has agreed to? Such a document would help answer these
kinds of issues quickly, and if there isn't documented agreement then
these kinds of questions are bound to continue happening.
I looked at the charter
(http://www.w3.org/2006/appformats/admin/charter.html) to see if I
could
find any guidance there but didn't even find the work listed in the
deliverables. Which surprised me somewhat.
You're right David, this doc was not included in the WG's original
Charter. [Work on this spec started in a Task Force of the WAF WG as
a joint effort between the Voice Browser WG, the Web API WG and the
WAF WG and was Chaired by Brad Porter. Formal work began after the
W3C Team completed a "Project Review" [Project-Review] (sorry but
Member-only access) in April '06. After Brad left Tellme in the
spring of '07, the TF was dissolved and the WAF WG "proper" took over
the work.]
Anyhow, as is now documented as ISSUE-19, there is a need for
explicit requirements, etc. and I agree that without such
documentation there will continue to be questions and confusion about
the specs requirements, etc.
Regards, AB
[Project-Review] <http://www.w3.org/2006/04/27-access-control-minutes>
<snip/>
One of our requirements is that you can simply put a file on
the server and have it work. Also in the case where you can't
configure HTTP headers.
The protocol should also work consistently which is why GET
is also used for the authorization request so the entity body
is taken into account there as well. Given that servers
opt-in to all of this and sites are unlikely to just make
random cross-site requests it is unlikely you get a very
large response.
<snip/>
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
Cheers,
Dave
