Explainer

https://github.com/WICG/email-verification-protocol

The explainer

• Includes the information requested by the Explainer Explainer.
• Follows the Web Platform Design Principles.
• Includes or links to answers to the Security/Privacy Questionnaire.
• Describes user research you did to validate the problem and/or design.

Where and by whom is the work is being done?

• GitHub repo: https://github.com/WICG/email-verification-protocol
• Primary contacts: @samuelgoto (Google), @dickhardt (Hello)
• Organization/project driving the design:
• This work is being funded by:
• Incubation and standards groups that have discussed the design:
  • https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/239
• Standards group(s) that you expect to discuss and/or adopt this work when it's ready: W3C WICG, IETF

Feedback so far

• Multi-stakeholder feedback:
  • Chromium comments: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/pWfWupaOtJw/m/MLxOQ04EAgAJ
  • Mozilla comments: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1316
  • WebKit comments: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/578
  • {{...include feedback/review from developers, implementers, civil society, and others}}
• Major unresolved issues with or opposition to this design:

You should also know that...

This is super early, looking for directional guidance rather than a in-depth review. It will likely change a lot as we go along in incubating it, so not super interested in API design, but rather high level considerations (e.g. design of incentives, cross cutting concerns, etc).

Much of this derived from this line of thinking: https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/1039

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