- From: Matthias Schunter <mts@zurich.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:23:36 -0400
- To: Lorrie Cranor <lorrie+@cs.cmu.edu>
- CC: public-p3p-spec <public-p3p-spec@w3.org>, Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
Good plan. Please go ahead with the publication. matthias Lorrie Cranor wrote: > > Dear Working Group members, > > It's been a long time since you've heard much about the P3P 1.1 > working group activities. Interest in this working group has dwindled > as companies have refocussed their priorities. Therefore, W3C > management has recommended that we make a final publication of our > work and close the working group down. Although it is somewhat > disappointing that we were unable to complete the deliverables in our > charter, I agree that the time has come to issue a final publication > and move on to other things. The P3P 1.1. working draft is a stable > and implementable draft, and should there be interest in the future, > all of our work will be documented and a new working group can pick up > where we left off. Having been chair of one P3P working group or > another for nearly 10 years now this decision comes almost as a relief > to me, and I suspect to some of the rest of you who have been > contributing to the P3P working groups for many years. > > As you know, the P3P 1.1 Last Call document was published on February > 10, 2006 [1]. A small number of comments were received and documented > [2]. No major issues within the scope of P3P 1.1 were raised during > last call. I am grateful to Matthias Schunter, who volunteered to take > over as editor of the document and address the minor issues and typos. > His edited draft is available for your review [3]. You should not find > any major changes in this draft. In order to give this draft a final > document status, I propose that we publish it as a Working Group Note > [4]. This is not a recommendation-track document, but it is something > that people can refer to and cite. This is the same status we gave to > APPEL. The APPEL note has been the basis of several implementations > and it is frequently cited in research papers. I would urge anyone > doing P3P implementations to include elements from the P3P 1.1 draft, > all of which are backwards compatible with P3P 1.0. > > Rigo is working on making sure the P3P 1.1 document conforms with W3C > Note rules and will send us an editor's draft by November 7, with the > goal of publishing the final note within a week after that. In order > for that to happen, we need a vote of the working group to move > forward with the publication of the note. So... > > RESPONSE NEEDED: > Please review the draft at > http://www.w3.org/P3P/2006/WD-P3P11-20061006.html (or just the changes > if you reviewed the Last Call) and send an email to this mailing list > indicating a yes or no vote for proceeding with a W3C Note > publication. I would like to receive all votes by November 10 at 10 am > US Eastern time. Even if you haven't been paying attention for a > while, I encourage you to vote so that we have a critical mass of > people voting. > > Work on P3P implementations and research does continue in many places. > As an editorial board member for several journals and a conference > paper reviewer, I see draft papers that cite and use P3P on a regular > basis. P3P is already built into two major web browsers, and it has > been adopted by a significant number of web sites [5]. My lab at CMU > operates a P3P-enabled search engine [6] and I have students who are > doing some interesting work to see what impact privacy information > provided via our P3P search engine has on consumers' purchase > decisions [7]. I believe that the impact of the P3P 1.0 and 1.1 > working groups' work will continue to be felt for some time to come. > Thanks to all of you for your contributions to this effort over the > past decade. > > Lorrie Cranor > > > 1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-P3P11-20060210/Overview.html > 2. http://www.w3.org/P3P/2006/05-last-call.html > 3. http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#q78 > 4. http://www.w3.org/P3P/2006/WD-P3P11-20061006.html > 5. http://lorrie.cranor.org/pubs/icec06.html > 6. http://search.privacybird.com/ > 7. http://cups.cs.cmu.edu/soups/2006/proceedings/p133_gideon.pdf > > > -- > Lorrie Faith Cranor, Associate Research Professor > Computer Science and Engineering & Public Policy > Carnegie Mellon University > http://lorrie.cranor.org/ > > > > >
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