- From: Giles Hogben <giles.hogben@jrc.it>
- Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 20:38:04 +0200
- To: Lorrie Cranor <lorrie@cs.cmu.edu>
- Cc: "'public-p3p-spec'" <public-p3p-spec@w3.org>
> I think we are resolving the backwards compatibility issues with > the > new data schema: > > - P3P 1.1 policies will use the P3P 1.0 format to reference data > elements I don't agree here. I think they MUST use the new format. That way you can build a user agent that doesn't need to understand the 1.0 format. Of course this is in an extension and they must ALSO use the 1.0 format. > - Custom data schemas will be provided by web sites in both the > 1.0 and > 1.1 format. According to what we discussed the 1.0 schema will be via a dynamic transform referenced by the policy with the address created by the xslt transform (with schema writers free to provide their own if they wish) > - We will provide translator scripts to go between these formats > - the 1.1 format will be referenced using the extension > mechanism as > an optional > extension so 1.0 user agents will ignore it > - 1.1 user agents can ignore the 1.0 format and just read the > 1.1 > format > But then you need to require it - see point 1. > This is all made possible by the fact that we now have translators > going in both directions thanks to the hard work of Giles and > Serge > (although we are still doing some testing to make sure everything > works > as advertised). > > Stay tuned.... > > Lorrie > > >
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