Re: TPWG Charter; urge it remain

CDD urges W3C to keep this group’s status active.  It is critically important, given the changes to the market we are seeing in both N. America and Europe especially, that W3C's Do Not Track initiative is ongoing during this period.  The Charter should be renewed; otherwise privacy and the public lose out.

Thank you,

Jeff Chester



Executive Director
Center for Digital Democracy
Washington, DC. 
www. democraticmedia.org
jeff@democraticmedia.org
202-494-7100



> On Jul 15, 2016, at 12:05 PM, Wendy Seltzer <wseltzer@w3.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi TPWG participants,
> 
> Seeing limited conversation here, and no input from adopters of the
> technology, I lean toward not rechartering the group at this time,
> while continuing to track implementation and adoption.
> 
> We can keep using the public-tracking mailing list and wikis, under the
> auspices of the Privacy Interest Group (PING, join for broader
> discussion, if you like, at https://www.w3.org/Privacy/).
> 
> The CR documents we published will of course remain available for
> reference, implementation, and use:
> TPE: https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/
> TCS: https://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-compliance/
> 
> If interest in DNT picks up, we can reopen the Working Group to complete
> the interop testing and editing necessary to take the specs forward to
> Recommendation.
> 
> How does that sound?
> 
> --Wendy
> 
> On 07/01/2016 07:39 AM, Matthias Schunter (Intel Corporation) wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>> 
>> 
>> thanks for the positive responses. It is a good point that people who
>> want to implement DNT better get guidance to do so in an interoperable way.
>> 
>> I would also like to hear the opposite opinions: Are there objections to
>> extending the charter and finalizing the documents?
>> Is there a downside to extending the charter, reviewing implementations,
>> and publishing a final recommendation?
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> matthias
>> Am 01.07.2016 00:10, schrieb Craig Spiezle:
>>> I third it.  As noted we are seeing an uptake of sites disclosing if they Honor DNT and a renewed interest among publishers.   Honoring Do Not track is much suddenly become more attractive then Ad blockers.
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Rob van Eijk [mailto:rob@blaeu.com] 
>>> Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2016 11:14 AM
>>> To: Mike O'Neill <michael.oneill@baycloud.com>
>>> Cc: public-tracking@w3.org; 'Wendy Seltzer' <wseltzer@w3.org>
>>> Subject: Re: TPWG Charter
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Dear all,
>>> 
>>> I second a request to extend the charter. Now that implementers and testers have picked up DNT, it is time to further explore use cases that we may have overlooked.
>>> 
>>> Kind regards,
>>> Rob van Eijk
>>> 
>>> Mike O'Neill schreef op 2016-06-30 19:57:
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>>>> With the tightening of the requirement for consent, the right to 
>>>> object, right to amend/modify/erase driven by the GDPR in Europe and 
>>>> the (initially Transatlantic) PrivacyShield, makes it advisable that 
>>>> the charter for this group be extended for at least another year. The 
>>>> building-blocks in the TPE, for example the Tracking Status Resource, 
>>>> support many of these requirements, and can clearly be enhanced to 
>>>> support the others, and this WG is the obvious place where these can 
>>>> be discussed and hopefully standardised.
>>>> 
>>>> The rising popularity of Ad Blockers and other Content Blocking 
>>>> applications, which can be destructive in the way they arbitrarily 
>>>> inhibit aspects of the web platform, also point to the need for 
>>>> protocol elements that can communicate user preferences, and the TPE 
>>>> or something similar to it would help with this.
>>>> 
>>>> The TPE has been implemented on several clients and servers as 
>>>> described in the Implementation Report 
>>>> https://www.w3.org/wiki/Privacy/TPWG/TPE_Implementation_Report
>>>> 
>>>> The Tracking Exception API has been supported natively and in user 
>>>> agent extensions, and has been supported by thousands of sites, 
>>>> including those run by major consumer brand companies, in most 
>>>> European countries since 2013. A number of these sites are extending 
>>>> their support for the TPE protocol elements in the near future.
>>>> 
>>>> I hope the W3C recognises this and extends the group charter for 
>>>> another year.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Mike O'Neill
>>>> Technical Director
>>>> Baycloud Systems
>>>> Oxford Centre for Innovation
>>>> New Road
>>>> Oxford
>>>> OX1 1BY
>>>> Tel. 01865 735619
>>>> Fax: 01865 261401
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
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