Members of the Web Apps WG,
Below is an email from Henry Thompson (forwarded with his
permission), on behalf of the TAG [1], re the CORS spec [2].
Two things:
1. Please respond to at least this part of Henry's mail:
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It appeared to us that a number of significant criticisms of the
appropriateness of CORS have been submitted to the Working Group, from
respected members of the Web Security community among others. These
convinced us that there is a real possibility either that server-side
deployment won't happen, or that even if it did the new functionality
provided would, on the one hand, be insufficiently secure while, on the
other, discouraging the provision of something more satisfactory.
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2. For those that have been active in defining the CORS model and/or
CORS implementers - particularly Adam, Anne, Jonas, Hixie, Maciej, IE
guys (whomever replaced Sunava) - please indicate:
a) their level of interest in continuing to push the current CORS model;
b) their implementation plans for CORS.
Henry - regarding how the WG will address comments re CORS, I expect
us to continue to use public-webapps for related discussions and to
track issues using Tracker (see [3] for a list of open Issues related
to CORS).
-Regards, Art Barstow
[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/
[2] http://dev.w3.org/2006/waf/access-control/
[3] http://www.w3.org/2008/webapps/track/products/7
Begin forwarded message:
From: "ext Henry S. Thompson" <h...@inf.ed.ac.uk>
Date: June 23, 2009 5:18:51 PM EDT
To: "Barstow Art (Nokia-CIC/Boston)" <art.bars...@nokia.com>,
Charles McCathieNevile <cha...@opera.com>
Subject: TAG request concerning CORS
In the course of exploring a range of issues around the general
question of JavaScript security [1] at our face-to-face meeting, the
TAG reviewed the same-origin restriction policy in user agents,
and the Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) WD [2] under development
in the WebApps WG.
It appeared to us that a number of significant criticisms of the
appropriateness of CORS have been submitted to the Working Group, from
respected members of the Web Security community among others. These
convinced us that there is a real possibility either that server-side
deployment won't happen, or that even if it did the new functionality
provided would, on the one hand, be insufficiently secure while, on
the
other, discouraging the provision of something more satisfactory.
Please get back to us with some details of how those criticisms will
be addressed, so that widespread server-side deployment will not only
occur but also be beneficial.
Henry S. Thompson, on behalf of the TAG
[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2009/06/23-agenda#security
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/access-control/
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Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of
Edinburgh
