- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2015 08:53:23 +0100
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On 2015-11-28 18:52, Julian Reschke wrote: > In <https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/121>, Lucas Pardue > observes: > >> Section 5 foreshadows a discussion about privacy >> >> As the Alt-Used header field might be used by the server for >> tracking the client, a client MAY choose not to include it in its >> requests for protecting its privacy (see Section 9.4). >> >> However, Section 9.4 doesn't contain any mention of Alt-Used. Maybe >> all the information contained in the document is enough but this just >> struck me as a little odd. > > I agree this is odd, and it's a result of our resolution for > <https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/36>, in which we > realized that tracking though Alt-Used is much less interesting than > tracking through the host names used for alternative services. > > As such, the simplest possible fix is to remove the sentence. > > The alternative would be to re-introduce a discussion of the tracking > risk caused by Alt-Used into Section 9.4. > > Best regards, Julian Mark agreed (<https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/issues/121#issuecomment-162360413>), and as there was no other feedback, I have removed the sentence. Best regards, Julian
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