Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-tbray-http-legally-restricted-status-01.txt

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.
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> What about an additional recommendation that, where permitted, servers
> should include a link to more information?
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> 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.
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> --Wendy
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