- From: Aleecia M. McDonald <aleecia@aleecia.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:39:51 -0700
- To: public-tracking@w3.org
For what it's worth, I would typically use: Consumer when talking to the US Federal Trade Commission User when talking to a technical audience Person / people when talking to a non-technical US audience Citizen when talking to a European audience This one appears to have both cultural and regional elements. Aleecia On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:49 PM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On Oct 25, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: > >> http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/drafts/tracking-compliance.html >> The term "consumer" is widely regarded as offensive and derogatory > > No, it isn't. There is a broken link on wikipedia to some blog by someone > who apparently once thought it to be offensive, but that hardly counts as > "widely regarded". I don't use it in the TPE spec, since user is the more > technical term, but in trade regulations the term generally used is consumer, > and it makes perfect sense to think of web sites as producers. > It isn't the least bit offensive or derogatory in this context. > > If we want to be consistent, though, "user" is a better term. > >> I hope this draft is moved to some publically exposed version control >> system soon. > > It is on a version control system now (cvs). I think you can request > access from the W3C team. The WG published versions will be in the dated > space (with links to previous versions). > > ....Roy >
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