Re: tracking-ISSUE-258: automatic expiration of a tracking preference [TPE Last Call]

> If you want to suggest that the UGE APIs contain an expiration 
> parameter,
> then now is the time to do so.  I think that should be considered a 
> separate
> issue, since the WP comments were intending a global default.

I suggest the UGE APIs to contain an expiration parameter instead of a 
global default. I agree this should be a seperate issue. The expiration 
parameter is in line with what has been expressed in the letter from 
WP29 to the working group.

mvg::Rob

Roy T. Fielding schreef op 2014-09-22 23:17:
> On Sep 22, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Mike O'Neill wrote:
>> A sunset period for tracking consent has been called for by the DPAs 
>> in Europe with the CNIL specifying no more than 13 months. Some 
>> responsible companies may want it to default to less than that, or 
>> give the user an option.
>> 
>> There is no reason that the API could not be extended to support that 
>> with an expiry/max-age parameter as in cookies. Otherwise it would be 
>> left to the user agents to come up with arbitrary defaults.
> 
> That would be a technical change to the API to be set by each server, 
> not
> a global default expiration of 13 months (an entirely arbitrary 
> number).
> 
> If you want to suggest that the UGE APIs contain an expiration 
> parameter,
> then now is the time to do so.  I think that should be considered a 
> separate
> issue, since the WP comments were intending a global default.
> 
> ....Roy

Received on Tuesday, 23 September 2014 08:10:29 UTC