Re: ACTION-212: Draft text on how user agents must obtain consent to turn on a DNT signal

On Nov 2, 2012, at 10:24 , "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com> wrote:

> 
> I think this is a separate issue.  Telling a UA that the signal
> will be disregarded as invalid does not imply that the server
> is tracking.  It might very well disregard the signal and fall
> back to regional defaults, or it might do no tracking at all.


I realize that this means that servers that believe a UA is non-compliant will also ignore DNT:0 when they need consent, of course.  Thanks for pointing this out.

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Friday, 2 November 2012 10:43:09 UTC