Re: ACTION-390: alternative UA affordances for DNT choice

Rigo,

With respect to neutrality, should we be more careful than to say DNT "on"
or "off" where "on" may imply DNT:1 as opposed to enabling either signal?
Should your 1/ be "A user must be informed clearly and accurately about
the choices available before a preference may be registered by the User
Agent."

-Brooks


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On 4/25/13 1:54 PM, "Rigo Wenning" <rigo@w3.org> wrote:

>Alan, 
>
>let me try with some alternative wording to overcome this
>misunderstanding: 
>
>To turn DNT on: 
>
>1/ A user must be informed clearly and accurately about the choices
>available before turning DNT on or off.
>
>2/ When making the choice, the user must have access to explanatory text
>to provide more detailed information about DNT functionality and the
>parties involved in the DNT functionality
>
>This takes away the "user agent". Your understanding of the Web is
>narrowed by the entrenched discussion around defaults. But the issue
>here is not defaults, but that the Web can run on everything. Thus you
>have to address the requirements in a more neutral way so that it
>doesn't say user agent, as your fridge is not the user agent in the
>classic sense of a browser.
>
> --Rigo
>
>On Thursday 25 April 2013 08:51:38 Alan Chapell wrote:
>> So it sounds like we're in agreement re: concept, but might be in
>> disagreement re: the language. I've modified some of the language
>> suggested by Adrian. Does this address your concern? IMHO, "The User
>> Agent MUST ensure©" seems pretty clear and covers your music service
>> scenario.
>> 
>> If not, what do you think needs to change?
>> 
>> 
>> 1.    User agents are responsible for determining the user experience
>> by which a tracking preference is controlled;
>> 2.     User agents MUST ensure that tracking preference choices are
>> communicated to users clearly and accurately and shown at the time and
>> place the tracking preference choice is made available to a user;
>> 3.     User agents MUST ensure that the tracking preference choices
>> accurately describe the parties to whom DNT applies and MUST make
>> available explanatory text to provide more detailed information about
>> DNT functionality.
>> 
>
>

Received on Thursday, 25 April 2013 18:34:01 UTC