Re: [apps-discuss] webfinger privacy question/suggestion

There may be some use to having private sharing of discovery data.

However, it's such a complicated and difficult problem, that trying to 
solve it with this version of Webfinger will effectively disallow public 
discovery.

That is: it's a terrible morass, which will sink this effort.

I suggest making a note in the security considerations that Webfinger 
links are visible to all, so don't put private stuff in there, full stop.

-Evan

On 12-10-30 01:18 PM, SM wrote:
> At 03:16 30-10-2012, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
>> Have a look at: 
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-privacy-considerations-04
>
> Hmm, that draft was mentioned several months ago [1].
>
>> I have raised these privacy issues already last year. My comments got 
>> ignored.
>
> The following question was asked around 11 months ago [2]:
>
>   "What are you planning to do to ensure the draft properly addresses
>    security, privacy, and netiquette issues?"
>
> The current plan seems to be: do nothing.
>
> Regards,
> -sm
>
> 1. 
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg04747.html
> 2. 
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/apps-discuss/current/msg03804.html
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