Re: Disclaimer for Authoritative Metadata (ACTION-793)

On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com> wrote:
> "An agent MUST NOT ignore or override authoritative metadata without the consent of the party employing the agent."
> "Specifications MUST NOT work against the Web architecture by requiring or suggesting that a recipient override authoritative metadata without user consent."

Right, these are false.


> but in the end, "user consent" adds:
> "Likewise, consent may be implied by the nature or type of interaction being performed by the agent".

That does not seem like a useful way of reading the finding. That is
the same kind of reading that makes people suggest you can ignore most
requirements in the XML specification.


> In fact, there are no current W3C or IETF specifications that "work against" the "Web architecture" in this way.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/syntax.html#determining-the-character-encoding
treats BOM as more authoritative than HTTP Content-Type if you want to
get technical about this.


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