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Re: `Accept-CH` header is weird

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:25:23 +0200
Message-ID: <CABkgnnU14SRYWDFgkQ75tEJTEj=-7V2hJSe_pWtmbdXik7kMbg@mail.gmail.com>
To: Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com>
Cc: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, Nick Doty <npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu>, TAG List <www-tag@w3.org>, "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 6:07 PM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com> wrote:
> What am I missing?

The missing piece here is *active* accountability.  That is, ensuring
that a site remains accountable for its continuing use of a given
capability.  The implicit assertion here is that it is fine to reach
different conclusions about this.  I disagree on the basis that
accountability is an important - if not a foundational -
characteristic of the web.
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