SAMP doc revision

[Mark Taylor]

A SAMP v1.3 PR dated 28 Nov 2011 is now available on the IVOA Docs page
(http://www.ivoa.net/Documents/SAMP/20111128/).
I plan to call an RFC on this the week after next.

Mark


On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, Mark Taylor wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Following discussions at Pune and some further thought of mine 
> I've made another revision to the SAMP 1.3 draft, which I now hope
> to submit as a Proposed Recommendation.
> 
> The main changes are to the discussion of Security - I've reworked
> the section on Web Profile security (again) and added new separate
> sections on security in general and also moved the discussion of
> Standard Profile security to its own section for consistency.
> 
> The recommendations in the Web Profile security section have changed
> a bit; it's now recommended that implementations consider restricting
> the behaviour permitted to Web Profile clients in terms of both
> the MTypes they are allowed to send and the URLs they are allowed
> to translate.  I am (finally) confident that along with the registration
> restrictions this delivers a solution with adequate protection for
> users against potentially hostile Web SAMP clients.
> 
> Please take a look and post any comments to the list or to me.
> If there's no disagreement, I plan to submit this PR near the end
> of next week (25 Nov).
> 
> The text is in volute as usual
> (http://code.google.com/p/volute/source/browse/trunk/projects/samp/doc/samp.tex)
> If you want a built copy you can find one at
> ftp://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/pub/star/sampdoc/
> 
> Mark
> 
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> Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
> m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/
> 

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Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/