Re: [HASMAT] moving forward

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 02 September 2010 19:10 UTC

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On 9/2/10 1:09 PM, Brandon Sterne wrote:
>  On 09/02/2010 10:26 AM, Tobias Gondrom wrote:
>> @Brandon: I agree with Peter on the length of the WG name. (after all
>> its a technical short name, the WG scope is defined in the charter). So
>> far a couple of people suggested websec, which would be very close to
>> your proposal.
>> May I ask, how do you think about that name? Do you see strong reasons
>> against it compared to webappsec?
>>
>> Greetings, Tobias
>>
> I, personally, can live with "WEBSEC" and was unaware of the name length
> constraints.  Mnot's "HTTPSEC" isn't bad either.

Naming matters because folks might expect that the work could expand to
fill the space allotted. Might this group someday (after other work is
completed and after rechartering etc.) be interested in all things HTTP
security, e.g., proposals for new authentication methods? The "HTTPSEC"
and "WEBSEC" names are fairly broad.

In any case, more pressing is the issue Barry brought about getting the
charter right, especially with respect to the framework objectives.

Peter

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