- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:50:21 -0700
- To: Jonathan Mayer <jmayer@stanford.edu>
- Cc: Vinay Goel <vigoel@adobe.com>, Tracking Protection Working Group WG <public-tracking@w3.org>
On Mar 16, 2012, at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Mayer wrote: > At the Santa Clara meeting we debated whether to mandate specific technical requirements for the outsourcing exception. The compromise consensus was to call for "reasonable" measures and give implementers guidance in a non-normative section. Hi Jonathan, Saying "you should do" is a normative statement, regardless of where it appears or whether or not the word should is in uppercase. As such, standards editors are instructed not to use it within non-normative sections except when the subject is clearly not a party to the standard. The compliance spec has a few other bugs like that which the editors will need to fix once we have fewer options. Normally, this kind of text would appear in a Best Practices document, separate from the compliance or protocol spec, and be phrased in neutral terms like "Here are a set of practices that are believed to preserve privacy (or at least limit loss of privacy) ...". If it was developed within the WG, it would be written by subject matter experts -- like by the sysops within some of the larger outsourcing orgs. It could also be written up as a paper outside the WG process and referenced as non-normative, just like I referenced the KnowPrivacy paper in the intro. Normally, such best practices are written after the standard has reached consensus. Cheers, Roy T. Fielding <http://roy.gbiv.com/> Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems <http://adobe.com/enterprise>
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