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Re: Other certs extension




Stefan Santesson wrote:

Stephen,

You hinted in our discussions regarding this draft that the problem that this draft addresses originates from some W3C work.
Is this already covered by the use case in the draft, or could you elaborate?


Hi Stefan,

The W3C reference [1] is in the draft. Basically, that was a proposal
for a "safe" form editor for browsers, but when the W3C group thrashed
the details, it turned out to be somewhat unsafe since it was proposed
to be based on mapping (parts of) names from certs. That's probably not
that visible from the URL below, without diving into the WSC mail
archive. I believe that with the other certs extension, one could (in
future) build such a "safe" form editor into a browser.

Stephen.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2006/WSC/wiki/SafeWebFormEditor