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naming of hints is confusing #2322

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https://www.w3.org/TR/2025/WD-webauthn-3-20250127/#enum-hints

This was confusing terminology to me. "User-agent Hints" sounds very similar to "client hints", but is actually rather the opposite. These are hints from the relying party to the user agent. @timcappalli suggested that elsewhere it's named "RP Hints".

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