Re: Compact BDS - format from Lorrie Cranor on 2004-11-12 (public-p3p-spec@w3.org from November 2004)

From: Lorrie Cranor <lorrie+@cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 11:29:14 -0500
To: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
Cc: public-p3p-spec@w3.org, Giles Hogben <giles.hogben@jrc.it>
Message-Id: <FD949BDF-34C7-11D9-AD4E-000A95DA3F5A@cs.cmu.edu>

Why aren't the categories XML elements like they are in P3P 1.0? If  
they were, we wouldn't have this problem.

Lorrie


On Nov 12, 2004, at 5:11 AM, Rigo Wenning wrote:

> The spec currently says:
>
> <quote>
> ======================================================================= 
> =
> Note that while user preferences can list such variable data elements
> without any additional category information (effectively expressing
> preferences over any usage of this element), services MUST always
> explicitly specify the categories that apply to the usage of a variable
> data element in their particular policy. This information has to appear
> as a category element in the corresponding DATA element listed in the
> policy, for example as in:
>
> <datatype>
>   <dynamic>
>     <cookies>
>       <CATEGORY>uniqueid</CATEGORY>
>     </cookies>
>   </dynamic>
> </datatype>
>
> where a service declares that cookies are used to recognize the user at
> this site (i.e. category Unique Identifiers).
>
>
> If a service wants to declare that a data element is in multiple
> categories, it simply declares the corresponding categories as in:
>
> <datatype>
>   <dynamic>
>     <cookies>
>       <CATEGORY>
>         preference
>       </CATEGORY>
>       <CATEGORY>
>         uniqueid
>       </CATEGORY>
>     </cookies>
>   </dynamic>
> </datatype>
>
> With the above declaration a service announces that it uses cookies  
> both
> to recognize the user at this site and for storing user preference
> data. Note that for the purpose of P3P there is no difference whether
> this information is stored in two separate cookies or in a single one.
> ======================================================================= 
> =
>
> If we take a compact notation, this should read
>
> <datatype>
>   <dynamic>
>     <cookies>
>      <category>
>        preferences
>        uniqueid
>      </category>
>     </cookies>
>   </dynamic>
> </datatypes>
>
> We miss a separator between "preferences" and "uniqueid". Does this  
> mean
> we cannot use the compact notation here? Or should we invent some
> general separator in case of multiple terms?
>
> Best,
>
> Rigo

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