[TPE] Remove or truncate section 7.6 Transfer of an exception to another third party

I stumbled across this while reading the TPE diff on last week's call.

http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/drafts/tracking-dnt.html#transitive-exceptions

Section 7.6 contains a rather complicated description of what a second
third party must do when it receives DNT:0 data received from a first
third party because the first third party has been granted a
site-specific UGE via some site's first party, wherein the second
third party is required somehow to use a TSV of "C" (even though that
is quite impossible unless the user agent is making a request directly
to that other third party, which would make them a first third party)
and also a qualifier of "t".

This has so many problems that I have difficulty even stating them.

 1) the UA sent DNT:0, so we have no further requirements ... there
    is no option in DNT for a user agent to tell a third party that
    "you can track me but don't share any of that tracking stuff with
     some other third party".

 2) there is no request to the second third party, so they cannot
    respond with "C" even if they could distinguish this new meaning
    for DNT:0

 3) there is no "t" qualifier defined by TCS.

 4) this section is all about Compliance, so doesn't belong in TPE.

I would like to delete 7.6.  Please.  If not, we should at least
delete its last three paragraphs.

If deleted, remnants of 7.6 could be moved to TCS, though I personally
believe that none of it would work.  My guess is that the "G" response
is a better way to address these issues, in general.

....Roy

Received on Tuesday, 3 February 2015 01:42:57 UTC