Third-Party Definition

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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Received on Friday, 20 January 2012 21:08:48 UTC