- From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 12:47:39 -0400
- To: Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer@w3.org>
- Cc: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
A HTTP server can always return content with a status code but it will only display in the browser if it is HTML or the like. Formalizing some means of providing a link would be useful but probably something for HTML rather than HTTP? On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer@w3.org> wrote: > On 07/10/2012 07:25 PM, Tim Bray wrote: >> Since MNot has put this on the agenda, I thought I should revise one more >> time. There?s one big change and a bunch of little ones. >> >> Big: I went and talked to some subject-matter experts at Google who are >> paid to think about this sort of policy stuff, and some others who might >> have to implement it. I got strong advice that the draft should not talk >> about ?legal restrictions? because this might carry an implication that the >> party emitting the 451 acknowledges that this is in fact a ?restriction?. >> In fact, many parties get legal demands that they think might well be >> bogus but choose not to go to court for reasons of policy or cost; so >> they?d like to avoid implying that they acknowledge a ?restriction?. I was >> advised that it was perfectly OK to report that legal ?demands? had been >> made, and eventually became convinced that this was more accurate. The >> Republican Guards call up and demand that you take down some links, and you >> think they might be full of crap, but they?re the Guards, so you can >> accurately report that the *demand* was made. > > What about an additional recommendation that, where permitted, servers > should include a link to more information? > > A link could provide information about the specific demand or the > general legal context. With Chilling Effects, I'm thinking, from the > other direction, about better standardizing the description and posting > of these demands, so it could be interesting to encourage pointers. > > --Wendy > > > -- > Wendy Seltzer -- wseltzer@w3.org +1.617.863.0613 > http://wendy.seltzer.org/ > > > > -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/
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