- From: Lou Montulli <montulli@mozilla.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1996 17:20:30 -0700
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Larry Masinter wrote:
>
> The story so far (summarized by me):
>
> Marc is arguing for inclusion of a feature ("1-n domain cookies")
> which has not yet been deployed but which Marc thinks is useful.
> In particular, this is a feature which is not prohibited but
> is specified as 'undefined' in the text.
>
> Dave Kristol points out that it is not current practice. Koen objects
> to the feature on privacy grounds, and Ben rejects this argument,
> saying that the privacy concerns are already there, and that the
> feature would add no additional concerns.
>
I'm with Koen on this one. While Marc has pointed out that
it is possible to subvert privacy through other means, I do
not want to be a party to making it trivially easy.
:lou
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Received on Monday, 17 June 1996 17:23:28 UTC