- From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:08:14 -0500
- To: "public-tracking@w3.org (public-tracking@w3.org)" <public-tracking@w3.org>
I was wondering what were the definitions of third-parties at W3C, so I started to search a bit. It is used often in different contexts, but almost never defined. In our documents, sometimes we use "third-party", sometimes "third party", it seems inconsistent.
In DNT Syntax document, Third Party site is not defined
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-tracking-dnt-20111114/
In Tracking rules document,
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.
— http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/drafts/tracking-compliance.html#firstThirdPartiesDefn
Which is not really what a third party is in technical terms and which is basically not testable: infer, high probability, etc.
[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22third-party%22+site%3Awww.w3.org%2FTR&kl=wt-wt
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Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
Developer Relations, Opera Software
Received on Friday, 20 January 2012 21:08:48 UTC