I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-http-jaye-trust-state-01.txt

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	Title		: HTTP Trust Mechanism for State Management
	Author(s)	: D. Jaye
	Filename	: draft-ietf-http-jaye-trust-state-01.txt
	Pages		: 10
	Date		: 27-Oct-97
	
This document specifies an addition to the state management protocol
specified in draft-ietf-http-state-man-mec-03[Kristol].  The intent is
to provide a mechanism that allows user agents to determine the privacy
practices of a server and to accept or reject cookies based on those
practices.  Allowing the user to establish preferences for how to handle
cookies based on the server's practices provides a practical mechanism 
to provide users control over the privacy implications of cookies.
 
To provide verification of server privacy practices, we assume the
existence of one or more independent Trust Authorities.  The authority
establishes PICS ratings representing server privacy practices. It then
issues trust-labels, in the form of digitally signed PICS labels, to
organizations for specific domains and paths based on the server privacy
practices.  The Trust Authority must be able to audit domains to
verify their adherence to a given level.  Passing these trust-labels
along with cookies allows the user agent to support cookie handling 
preferences based on trusted privacy practices.
 
This document describes how PICS-headers are used in conjunction with
Set-Cookie or Set-Cookie2 headers in [Kristol] to provide trust-labels
to communicate the privacy practices of servers regarding cookies.

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