http://www.w3.org/2008/security-ws/venue.html

I'm going to this event not because of any deep interests in APIs for location 
or battery power, but because there is a need to discuss how XML protocols like 
DSKPP, KeyGen2, WASP, WebAuth, and similar should be integrated in browsers.  I 
don't believe that a new MIME-type for every protocol is the right way to go 
because that would require that the HTTP Accept tag would be indefinitely 
extended in order for a server to discover if a client is XYZ-protocol-capable. 
 There is also the versioning stuff.

My personal preference is to assign a single MIME-type for XML protocols and 
use the name-space + [optional XSD version] as protocol ID as well as 
supporting a discovery mechanism, but really, the only thing that matters is 
that we get "something" which indeed can be the device JavaScript API.  The 
important thing is how easy you can plug-in a new protocol into the framework.  
That Microsoft's Information Cards specify 2 completely different methods for 
invocation is an indication that it is about time creating something generic.

Anders Rundgren
http://WebPKI.org
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