W3C

– DRAFT –
Web Authentication WG

12 January 2022

Attendees

Present
jeffh, jfontana, nsteele, selfissued
Regrets
-
Chair
fontana, nadalin
Scribe
jfontana

Meeting minutes

tony: does not look like charter will be resolved anytime soon.

...could impact what we want to get done.

...Wendy can you shed some light on us.

wendy: still under esisting charter, we are free to work on

... the FO was rasied to re-charting
… it is not about any specific to the group
… spinning up a council to handle the FO (formal objection)
… working with advisory board and TAG to make process efficient
… hope to conclude in a few months

tony: so this slows work on level 3

wendy: can't go outside the current charter

tony: there are other groups going through this

agl: we had items in charter for level 3.
… if you read level 2 everything is in that scope

tony: we could say that almost anything
… my concern if people come back and say this is not right

agl: it says we are in scope if you read it.
… nothing in level 3 is going outside of that
… I think it is plausible that we have a lot in scope

jeffH: I think adam has a good point

tony: there are things we could do, but some are fairly major items

agl: I think it is the chairs call
… are thing that are essentially not level 2, but 3

tony: I would say backup and recovery are fairly major.

agl: conditional UI, how do you feel about that

tony: ambivalent about that, likely. I would say that is OK to contiue to work on
… not a lot of new technical work

agl: device-bound key proposal is part of that, guess we have to pause that?

tony: if people don't agree, lets find that out

DWaite: work that is in conflict is the work we sould avoid .
… other features I don't see objection to other parts of charter

NSteele: feal there are channels we can continue to work on

tony: the draft charter is out there.

<wseltzer> Charter review

tony: the objection is not about our charter. It is just some procedure that has to go on to eliminate the FO

wendy: we are called out in objection, but not specific to the contents of our charter

tony: seeing these objections being raised and then have them come back and say we were out of our charter

akshay: is it is snapshot or does it cover anything.
… when will charter be finalized.

wendy: goal to get it done before march
… plausible

tony: my opinion would be to discuss things have issues, but now a PR on these issues. not merge
… that was my interpretation

jeffH: working on pull requests are OK, but they don't land anywhere.

mmiller: charter process? how can this be derailed by one person.
… how did this happen

tony: it is the process

tony: some of it is about equality

wendy: Our process requires us to address every formal objection
… twist here, W3C is evolving process from TBL conclusion to have a solution that goes beyond the current format

mmiller: if we follow letter of this, will we see anything on this before the issue is solved.

tony: questionable state between level 2 and new level 3 charter.
… we are on a bit of an edge here
… I stick to my proposal

agL: I am OK with that
… can't land in editors draft until this is resolved.

tony: I don't think we can get a formal review on this

dwaite: I feel OK proceeding the way Tony laid it out
… things that are dealing with export of keys and other issues, just can't land work

selfissue: that sounds pragmatic to me.

tim: could take a big hit, may impact FIDO

tonuy: I see david and rae are on.

tony: there will be impact.

tony: 3 or 6 month delay could happen

tony: if no one objects than I think we should proceed as we have talked about

wendy: I will keep the group posted as we make progress

https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/pull/1663

jeffH: chipping away at this
… I have some remaining items.

https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/pull/1576

jeffH: I think that is ready to go.

tony: we can do reviews and get sign-offs

agl: is conditional UI within scope?

tony: I would be fine with that.

jeffH: this has been reviewed as we have been going along
… still need some reviews.

tony: https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/pull/1425

elundberg: take a look at last couple of comments in #1640
… it looks like we could unlock some things as browser features
… thing this could also be tied to an authenticator feaure
… feature

tony: we have some un-triaged issues

https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1687

jeffH: minor, editorial

elundberg: I can do this in the next couple of days. queue it up

tony: https://github.com/w3c/webauthn/issues/1688

shane: concern here is passkey issue. for RPs, the idea of supporting log-in where root of trust is cloud provider account alone is a scary thought
… more of a state of mind. who has control of account?
… ifd I am an RP that is adverse to passkeys, because losing control, then how do I do it with webauthn

alg: RPs that want some complexity in risk score, the solution is there in passkey.
… things that are platform bound today will continue to be that
… I understand the approach, but it would mean attestation is compulsory

agl: RPs that want to get extra stuff have to do more work, but think that is the right way

shane: I accept that point of view
… I expect we will see more push back on this.

agl: this can be a big change. device bound key extension. still getting all things together.

tony: leave this one hanging right now.

shane: it looks destine to a close with an explanation.

tony: what is cadance for meetings. every two weeks?

Nsteele: two weeks is good for Web Authn CG

agl: keep it is same
… stay in sync with FIDO TWG

<wseltzer> [adjourned]

rrsagent: draft minutes

Minutes manually created (not a transcript), formatted by scribe.perl version 185 (Thu Dec 2 18:51:55 2021 UTC).

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Maybe present: agl, akshay, alg, DWaite, elundberg, mmiller, rrsagent, selfissue, shane, tim, tonuy, tony, wendy