RE: Issue 2: Use of the term "3rd-party"

Hey Rob,

Great point. I haven't seen very many implementations that use IP address "in the wild", but the list format can accommodate IP addresses. There is no special affordance in the syntax like there is for domain names (i.e. allow/block by subnet mask), but regular string matching rules (+-) can block IPs.

At a minimum, the spec should clearly call out the expected behavior with IP addresses -- I'll add an issue for that.

Thanks,

Andy

-----Original Message-----
From: Rob van Eijk [mailto:rob@blaeu.com] 
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 2:00 PM
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Subject: Re: Issue 2: Use of the term "3rd-party"

On 9-4-2012 4:33, Andy Zeigler wrote:
> The reality is that domain names, and not schemes and ports, establish business relationships. By eliminating scheme/port, you get a cleaner list format that's easier to implement.
I have observed ip-address only tracking sources in the Netherlands. Can the list accommodate ip ranges as well? Or is this an edge-case and better to be dealt with in eg a /etc/hosts file.

Rob

Received on Thursday, 12 April 2012 22:14:38 UTC