The author's name is on the proposal, Craig Hockenberry. To avoid making folks Google for him, he's been running the Iconfactory, a design and programming consu

The author's name is on the proposal, Craig Hockenberry. To avoid making folks Google for him, he's been running the Iconfactory, a design and programming consultancy that does, yes, icons, as well as web sites and applications. They're most famous for Twitterrific, the very first Twitter client (and the one that gave us the word "tweet" for Twitter posts as well as the blue bird icon). They've been in business over twenty years. Hockenberry is himself both an app developer and a long-time web developer. I'm not sure I particularly agree with this proposal, either, for a lot of reasons outlined in comments here (most broadly that this is putting too much of a burden on users, and that it's just likely to create a new round of cat-and-mouse games with bad actors to find ways around it), but the author certainly isn't inexperienced in web and application matters.