Re: [Webpush] Spencer Dawkins' Yes on draft-ietf-webpush-encryption-08: (with COMMENT)

Spencer Dawkins at IETF <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> Wed, 16 August 2017 01:35 UTC

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From: Spencer Dawkins at IETF <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:35:39 -0500
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Subject: Re: [Webpush] Spencer Dawkins' Yes on draft-ietf-webpush-encryption-08: (with COMMENT)
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Hi, Martin,

Top posting to say this looks like a plan. Thanks!

Spencer

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 7:03 PM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 16 August 2017 at 02:15, Spencer Dawkins
> <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I found “for efficiency reasons” in this text
> >
> >   For efficiency reasons, multiple users of Web Push often share a
> >    central agent that aggregates push functionality.
> >
> > To be so broad that I wasn’t sure what you were telling the reader. Are
> there
> > any specific efficiencies that you could call out, so that we’d better
> > understand why central agents are used? And if that’s already written
> down
> > someplace, adding a pointer would be even better.
>
> It's engineering efficiency more than anything else.  On mobile
> platforms, this is the platform; on browsers, the browser.  If I
> remove the "for efficiency reasons" clause, I don't think we lose
> anything.
>
> > I’m curious about algorithm agility, but I’m not the person to ask that
> > question ...
>
> It's a common question.  Common enough that I'll add some text and
> avoid future occurrences.
>
> We have deployment experience with this already.  We deployed an
> earlier version, then had to change it a few times.  So we know how to
> do this.  The User Agent tells the application what content codings it
> likes.  The W3C spec has a supportedContentEncodings parameter on the
> PushManager interface that does this
> (https://w3c.github.io/push-api/#pushmanager-interface).
>
> For you:
>   https://github.com/webpush-wg/webpush-encryption/pull/18
>