- From: James Rosewell via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2022 16:54:31 +0000
- To: public-patcg@w3.org
@AramZS If the group is intending to develop a specific proposal like IPA as a technical standard then I can understand why the change I propose would be resisted by engineers. IPA does not consider the roles of laws or economics. Some of the contributors have explicitly dismissed the role of laws and economics in solutions. I consider IPA (and Topics, and the like) to be similar to the work which occurred in the Payments group. The people involved could have developed a general solution that would enable sensitive information to be shared among different parties within the web browser and which supported many use cases including payments. Instead they solved the problem specifically for the payments use case and in doing so inserted the web browser into the payments handling process when it would not otherwise needed to have been. Had I been a member of the W3C at the time the group was chartered I would have Formally Objected to the charter for this reason. This group should work on solving the problem of privacy in advertising exploring solutions that enable the widest group of web participants to innovate not the narrowest. That will involve some element of technology, but that might be a small element in the grand solution. Therefore the group should focus on the outcomes for users of the web and participants on the web not the means with which that outcome is delivered. -- GitHub Notification of comment by jwrosewell Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/patcg/patwg-charter/issues/8#issuecomment-1082126104 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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