Re: [patwg-charter] jwrosewell: "primarily non-technical" -> "do not have any technical component" (#8)

Working on technologies that can be added to the web platform neither precludes other organisations, likely better suited to the task, from looking at systems and solutions that have significant non-technical components; nor stops both legal and economic factors from determining the ultimate adoption and use of any output of the WG.

I generally favour narrowly-targeted technologies, both because they're easier to specify (and perhaps implement) than ones trying to provide more general solutions, and because it simplifies impact analysis (including but not limited to security & privacy review). If something roughly the shape of IPA emerges to the standards track then it doesn't preclude other approaches being developed or used alongside it, including ones where PATWG would have had zero input. (I don't have a formal position from our measurement teams, but the sense I get is that the sorts of proposals we've seen around conversion attribution to date could be usefully combined with econometric work with aggregate data, for instance.)

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