From m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk Thu Dec 1 06:15:03 2011 From: m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk (Mark Taylor) Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:15:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: SAMP doc revision In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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 > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/ From m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk Mon Dec 12 04:58:55 2011 From: m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk (Mark Taylor) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:58:55 +0000 (GMT) Subject: JSAMP 1.3-2 Message-ID: Hi, I've just released JSAMP 1.3-2, which contains a few bug fixes and adjustments to the security policy relative to 1.3-1. Available from the usual place: http://software.astrogrid.org/doc/jsamp/ Change log at: http://software.astrogrid.org/doc/jsamp/history.html#Version_1_3-2 Any comments or queries let me know. Mark -- 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/