- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:11:13 +0900
- To: "Aleecia M. McDonald" <aleecia@aleecia.com>
- Cc: Tracking Protection Working Group WG <public-tracking@w3.org>
I think a number of us argued that the question itself was malformed:
"What is the default for DNT in client configuration (opt-in or opt-out)?"
in that it implies that there are only two choices for the default, when in fact there is at least a third ("not stated").
In general, protocols are designed such that default values can also be explicitly stated, and currently we don't have a "not stated" explicit value, either. Do we need one ("DNT:<blank>", perhaps)?
I tend to the view that the default value is the state of affairs existing before DNT was made available to users, i.e. "not stated".
David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
Received on Wednesday, 9 November 2011 01:11:44 UTC