This was not closed by Mozilla with no opinion, it was closed as Harmful.

Randell Jesup, Mozilla Networking Team

On Tue, Aug 13, 2024, 2:59 PM Chromestatus <ad...@cr-status.appspotmail.com>
wrote:

> Contact emails greengr...@google.com
>
> Explainer
> https://github.com/WICG/direct-sockets/blob/main/docs/explainer.md
>
> Specification https://wicg.github.io/direct-sockets
>
> Summary
>
> Allows Isolated Web Apps to establish direct transmission control protocol
> (TCP) and user datagram protocol (UDP) communications with network devices
> and systems as well as listen to and accept incoming connections.
>
>
> Blink component Blink>Network>Direct Sockets
> <https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=component:Blink%3ENetwork%3EDirect%20Sockets>
>
> Search tags networking <http:///features#tags:networking>, TCP
> <http:///features#tags:TCP>, UDP <http:///features#tags:UDP>, sockets
> <http:///features#tags:sockets>
>
> TAG review https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/548
>
> TAG review status Pending
>
> Risks
>
>
> Interoperability and Compatibility
>
> Other browsers may choose to implement this API.
>
>
> *Gecko*: Closed Without a Position (
> https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/431)
>
> *WebKit*: No signal
>
> *Web developers*: Positive (
> https://discourse.wicg.io/t/filling-the-remaining-gap-between-websocket-webrtc-and-webtranspor/4366)
> Numerous potential use cases have been suggested.
>
> *Other signals*:
>
> Security
>
> Various security risks and mitigations are noted in
> https://github.com/WICG/raw-sockets/blob/master/docs/explainer.md#security-considerations
> This is a powerful API. Users will have the opportunity to give Isolated
> Web Apps access to local hardware, and information systems behind
> organization firewalls. Mitigations are designed to ensure this cannot
> happen accidentally, and only through enterprise policies or the friction
> of installing a native app.
>
>
> WebView application risks
>
> Does this intent deprecate or change behavior of existing APIs, such that
> it has potentially high risk for Android WebView-based applications?
>
> N/A. Feature not compiled in Android.
>
>
> Debuggability
>
> The code using this API can be debugged using the standard tools.
> Integrating the API with the DevTools Networking tab to enable easier
> introspection of the state of these connections as well as the data
> transferred could be a beneficial future improvement.
>
>
> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac,
> Linux, ChromeOS, Android, and Android WebView)? No
>
> This feature is implemented on desktop platforms, although it will only be
> available to the end users on platforms that support Isolated Web Apps,
> which is currently only ChromeOS. Android is excluded for historical
> reasons, although there are no apparent interoperability blockers here.
>
>
> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
> ? Yes
>
> These tests require a specific --isolated-context-origins flag to be
> tested in WPTs, so they're run as a part of a virtual suite and are not
> reflected on wpt.fyi.
>
>
> Flag name on chrome://flags #enable-direct-sockets-web-api
>
> Finch feature name DirectSockets
>
> Requires code in //chrome? False
>
> Tracking bug https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=909927
>
> Launch bug https://launch.corp.google.com/launch/4339602
>
> Measurement We have the following histograms for tracking network
> failures upon creating sockets (prefixed with DirectSockets.*): -
> TCPNetworkFailures - UDPNetworkFailures - TCPServerNetworkFailures Separate
> programmatic counters for the .idl methods and attributes (via MeasureAs)
> are also included to track the stats for API usage.
>
> Availability expectation Feature is available only in Isolated Web Apps
> on desktop platforms. https://chromestatus.com/feature/5146307550248960
>
> Adoption expectation Expected to be used initially by a small number of
> developers inside Isolated Web Apps.
>
> Adoption plan Working directly with developers that are planning to rely
> on the API.
>
> Non-OSS dependencies
>
> Does the feature depend on any code or APIs outside the Chromium open
> source repository and its open-source dependencies to function?
> None
>
> Sample links
> https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/telnet-client
>
> Estimated milestones
> Shipping on desktop 130
>
> Anticipated spec changes
>
> Open questions about a feature may be a source of future web compat or
> interop issues. Please list open issues (e.g. links to known github issues
> in the project for the feature specification) whose resolution may
> introduce web compat/interop risk (e.g., changing to naming or structure of
> the API in a non-backward-compatible way).
> None
>
> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
> https://chromestatus.com/feature/6398297361088512?gate=6732051726729216
>
> This intent message was generated by Chrome Platform Status
> <https://chromestatus.com>.
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