Define permission lifetimes by marcoscaceres · Pull Request #287 · w3c/permissions (original) (raw)

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"Setting" a permission state isn't really defined in this spec, in order to give UAs lots of freedom of how to infer what the user wants.

I think that's fine, but conceptually there is still some datastore somewhere that gets updated (that is, a permission is bound to an origin or a realm or whatever). When the update happens, it gets asynchronously propagated.

I think it's clear enough what you mean here, but it could help to define "setting a descriptor's permission state to X" as something like "as if the UA had returned X when reading the descriptor's permission state for some group of settings objects".

Upon reflection, I think we should do this as a followup, because it gets into the problem above about conceptualizing how permissions are actually stored (or how we will pretend they are stored for the purpose of the specification).