Re: ISSUE-60: proposed to close

Forgive me if I've missed it, but have we decided that there is or isn't a
reasonable way to make that determination?

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:23 PM, Peter Eckersley
<peter.eckersley@gmail.com>wrote:

> Issue 60 raises the question of whether a recipient of a DNT: 1 header
> knows whether it is in fact a first or a third party.  This can in some
> instances be ambiguous: for instance a host of an image may not be able to
> tell the difference between users who follow a hyperlink to that image (in
> which case they host is a 1st party) and users who are seeing the image
> randomly embedded on some other page (in which case the host is arguably a
> 3rd party)
>
> The text that Tom, Jonathan and I drafted resolves this with the following
> language:
>
> A "first party" is any party, in a specific network interaction, that can
> infer with high
> probability that the user knowingly and intentionally communicated with
> it. Otherwise, a
> party is a third party.
>
> A "third party" is any party, in a specific network interaction, that
> cannot infer with high
> probability that the user knowingly and intentionally communicated with it.
>
> If the authors of other drafts are willing to accept our "high
> probability" standard for resolving this issue, it can be closed.
>
> --
> Peter
>



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