Follow-up from the IETF and W3C security/spec reviews.
Decisions to encode in the specs:
- Encoding: specify one canonical wire encoding: unpadded Base64. Producers must emit canonical unpadded Base64; verifiers should reject non-canonical signed attributes except in explicitly legacy tooling.
- Origin binding: use the Web/URL origin model instead of inventing domain rules. Reference the relevant origin serialization rules and then update code to bind scheme, host, and port consistently.
- Claims hashing: treat all direct child
meta elements inside signed-section as claims and sign them all. Call out duplicate normalized names, malformed metadata, ordering, and whether this includes signed-at as separately bound or double-bound.
- Directory API: keep the spec API normative and fix code to match it.
- Endorsements: keep the structured endorsement format and fix code to match it.
- Browser snapshot: define verification over server HTML before browser extensions or page scripts can mutate it. Prefer the original response snapshot; allow fallback re-request from the server, with stale/source-only semantics if rendered DOM later differs.
- Text-only scope: start a signed attribute allowlist with
href, src, alt, and aria-label; leave the exact list open for community feedback.
- Network/CSP/privacy: add a provisional browser fetch/privacy model covering CORS, CSP, credentials, referrer, service workers, redirects, cache, user opt-in, and failure behavior.
Deliverables:
- Update the IETF draft wire protocol text.
- Update the W3C CG HTML/DOM integration text.
- Update examples and open issues to reflect these decisions.
- Add a clear implementation migration checklist for code repos.
Review artifacts: IETF_SPEC_REVIEW.md and W3C_SPEC_REVIEW.md in the spec repo.
Follow-up from the IETF and W3C security/spec reviews.
Decisions to encode in the specs:
metaelements insidesigned-sectionas claims and sign them all. Call out duplicate normalized names, malformed metadata, ordering, and whether this includessigned-atas separately bound or double-bound.href,src,alt, andaria-label; leave the exact list open for community feedback.Deliverables:
Review artifacts:
IETF_SPEC_REVIEW.mdandW3C_SPEC_REVIEW.mdin the spec repo.