Private Network Access (aka CORS-RFC1918) permission to relax mixed content

[iVanlIsh]

Wotcher TAG!

I'm requesting a TAG review of Private Network Access permission to relax mixed content.

A new permission to relax mixed content restrictions for private network resources while secure context restriction enabled on public websites which initialed request to private network.

• Explainer: [url]
• Security and Privacy self-review: [url]
• GitHub repo: [url]
• Primary contacts (and their relationship to the specification):
  • Yifan Luo (@iVanlIsh), Google, specifier / implementer
  • Titouan Regoudy (@letitz), Google, specifier / implementer ( on leave )
  • Mike West (@mikewest), Google, original specifier / implementer
• Organization driving the design: Google
• External status/issue trackers for this feature (publicly visible, e.g. Chrome Status): https://chromestatus.com/guide/edit/5954091755241472

Further details:

• I have reviewed the TAG's Web Platform Design Principles
• The group where the incubation/design work on this is being done (or is intended to be done in the future): WICG
• The group where standardization of this work is intended to be done ("unknown" if not known): WHATWG
• Existing major pieces of multi-stakeholder review or discussion of this design: There is still no complete replacement for LAN plaintext connections WICG/private-network-access#23
• Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this design: None
• This work is being funded by: Google

You should also know that...

The major part of the spec has already been reviewed in #572
Here we forced on permission part to relax mixed content restrictions.

We'd prefer the TAG provide feedback as :

🐛 open issues in our GitHub repo for each point of feedback

[ylafon]

With @hadleybeeman @torgo and @maxpassion we reviewed this in our F2F. The only clarification needed is if/how the ipv6 case is handled, but otherwise it looks good to us.

To point 1 of the security & privacy self-review, any proxying from the local network is a risk that the owner accepts when setting it up, and most probably something that the prompt would be enough to alert the owner.

Thanks for flying TAG!