RE: extensions in Determining User Preference

Roy,

While I know many will still push for MUST over SHOULD, I believe the rest of the paragraph meets the expectations I had from Issue 153.

Thank you,
Shane

-----Original Message-----
From: Roy T. Fielding [mailto:fielding@gbiv.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2014 5:51 PM
To: public-tracking@w3.org (public-tracking@w3.org)
Subject: Re: extensions in Determining User Preference

After today's discussion regarding the text from ISSUE-153, my proposal is to replace the existing paragraph in Section 3:

  User agents often include user-installable extensions, also known as
  add-ons or plug-ins, that are capable of modifying configurations and
  making network requests. From the user's perspective, these extensions
  are considered part of the user agent and ought to respect the user's
  configuration of a tracking preference. However, there is no single
  standard for extension interfaces. A user agent that supports
  extensions SHOULD also provide an appropriate mechanism for such
  extensions to determine the user's tracking preference.       

with

  User agents often include user-installable extensions, also known as
  add-ons or plug-ins, that are capable of modifying configurations and
  making network requests. From the user's perspective, these extensions
  are considered part of the user agent and ought to respect the user's
  configuration of a tracking preference. The user agent as a whole is
  responsible for ensuring conformance with this protocol, to the extent
  possible, which means the user agent core and each extension are
  jointly responsible for conformance. However, there is no single
  standard for extension interfaces. A user agent that permits such
  extensions SHOULD provide an appropriate mechanism for extensions to
  determine the user's tracking preference.

....Roy

Received on Friday, 11 April 2014 08:04:47 UTC