Request for Comments/Call for Objections, with deadline this Friday

(Re-sending for any Participants not actively following the main list/teleconferences to include public-tracking-announce, which I neglected to CC earlier. Apologies for the repetition. —Nick)

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> Resent-From: public-tracking@w3.org
> From: Nicholas Doty <npdoty@w3.org>
> Subject: Re: text for Request for Comments/Call for Objections, with deadline this Friday
> Date: July 10, 2013 3:09:37 PM EDT
> To: Peter Swire <peter@peterswire.net>
> Cc: "public-tracking@w3.org" <public-tracking@w3.org>
> Archived-At: <http://www.w3.org/mid/7820A01E-AE30-4156-A712-50A3C17203C1@w3.org>
> 
> Hello Working Group,
> 
> Questionnaire for Call for Objections on ISSUE-215 is now available here:
>    https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/49311/datahygiene/
> 
> Participants will need to log in with their W3C accounts in order to submit responses; if you're having problems with your account, please contact me off-list. Please submit a single response for each organization if multiple participants from your organization have comments. The questions and your responses are visible to the public here:
>    https://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/49311/datahygiene/results
> 
> As Peter has noted, objections are due through this form by 5pm Pacific Time this Friday, July 12, 2013.
> 
> I've updated the group home page and the appropriate wiki pages with a link to the questionnaire.
> 
> Thanks,
> Nick
> 
> On Jul 10, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Peter Swire <peter@peterswire.net> wrote:
> 
>> Below please find the current version of the request for comments/call for objections, for comments due this Friday at 5:00 p.m. pacific.  We expect to discuss this on the call today.
>>  
>>  
>> Overview:
>>  
>> This question addresses ISSUE-215. The group's decision will also affect
>> subsequent decisions on ISSUEs 5, 16, 188, 199.
>>  
>> The Digital Advertising Alliance and other groups havesubmitted a package
>> of proposed changes to the Editors Draft (also known as the “June Draft.”).  See PDF of proposed changes, as amended on July 9.  This package proposes changes
>> to the definitions of "tracking", "de-identified", "de-linked", and
>> "third-party compliance."  It deletes any requirement to shift to no
>> unique identifier where that is reasonably available.
>>  
>> Under either option, there would be subsequent consideration in the
>> Working Group of change proposals.  The focus of this Call for Objections
>> is to determine the base text, and consideration subsequently of change
>> proposals will be shaped by which text is used as the base going forward.
>>  
>> This Call for Objections is a step in our "Getting to Closed"
>> <http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/decision-policy.html>.
>>  
>> If you have an objection to one or more of these proposed options, please
>> describe your objection via this poll with clear and specific reasoning.
>> (The purpose of the poll is not to gather a count.)
>>  
>> =====
>>  
>> Option A: Adopt the DAA proposal as base text
>>  
>> Adopt the DAA proposal as base text, including to make the proposed
>> changes to definitions of "tracking", "de-identified", "de-linked", and
>> third-party compliance, and to delete any requirement to shift to no
>> unique identifier where that is reasonably available.
>> =====
>>  
>> Option B: Continue with Editors Draft as base text
>>  
>> Continue to have the Editors Draft as base text, and decide not to adopt
>> the set of changes listed in Option A.
>>  
>> =====
>> 
>> 
>> Prof. Peter P. Swire
>> C. William O'Neill Professor of Law
>> 	Ohio State University
>> 240.994.4142
>> www.peterswire.net
>> 
>> Beginning August 2013:
>> Nancy J. and Lawrence P. Huang Professor
>> Law and Ethics Program
>> Scheller College of Business
>> Georgia Institute of Technology