On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Mark Nottingham <[email protected]> wrote:
> A bit late to the party, but FWIW I like this document.

Thanks.

> It brings two questions to mind, however:
>
> * Currently, HTTPbis ticket 270 [1] moves the details of the Upgrade process 
> in HTTP to p2-semantics [2], which "updates" (not obsoletes) RFC2817 [3], the 
> definition of how to upgrade to TLS within HTTP/1.1 (i.e., without changing 
> the scheme). I'm wondering if a stronger statement needs to be made; e.g., 
> obsoleting 2817, or marking it historic. It may also be worth mentioning in 
> your draft as a bad practice.

This was actually already in the document somewhat obliquely, but I've
made it less oblique by adding a reference to RFC 2817.  In some
sense, it's not really RFC 2817's fault because if that had become
popular, then the rest of the security model would have evolved in a
different way.

> * It doesn't mention CORS [4], which is a *much* more fine-grained (and as 
> I've said many times, undesirably chatty) definition of a trust domain. 
> Shouldn't there be some guidance the relationship between these different 
> concepts, when it's appropriate to use them, etc?

I've added a reference to CORS.  I don't want to go into too much
detail, but explaining that servers can opt into sharing their content
more widely seems valuable.

Thanks!

Adam


> 1. <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/240>
> 2. <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-14>
> 3. <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2817.txt>
> 4. <http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/>
>
>
> On 22/02/2011, at 9:10 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
>
>> Pursuant to the charter, I've posted an informational draft that
>> "describes the same-origin security model overall:"
>>
>> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-abarth-principles-of-origin-00.txt
>>
>> I don't expect this document to be very controversial.  I'm sure folks
>> will nitpick me over renaming URL to URI and MIME types to media
>> types, however.  :)
>>
>> Feedback welcome.
>>
>> Adam
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