Re: implementation and user guides?

sure

<http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/drafts/dnt-for-users.html>

This doesn’t display correctly for me at the moment because the w3c web site is broken, but you’ll get the content.

> On Mar 27, 2016, at 2:01 , Mike O'Neill <michael.oneill@baycloud.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> I can take a shot at it, starting with the guide for server-side
> implementers. It will have sections for first-parties and third-parties, and
> using the API. I will start it as an unofficial draft in a Github repo, and
> get something posted on the list by 18th April. 
> 
> David, can you point me to the explanatory document you started?
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Doty [mailto:npdoty@ischool.berkeley.edu] 
> Sent: 27 March 2016 07:07
> To: public-tracking@w3.org
> Subject: implementation and user guides?
> 
> Hi TPWG,
> 
> I'm hoping to see Compliance published as a Candidate Recommendation in the
> short term. But once we're calling for implementations, we may also need to
> help implementers who haven't been active participants or followers of this
> Working Group to understand what it means to comply with a user's DNT
> preference in this way. Similarly, it would be useful to have a guide to
> explain to end users what it means for them if a site is adhering to W3C
> Tracking Compliance and Scope.
> 
> For implementers, is there any documentation we could point to that would
> give an introduction to complying with a user's DNT preference? That
> documentation could even explain that there might be multiple different
> compliance regimes to choose from, but at least explain how to get started.
> I've been receiving fairly high-level questions from companies interested in
> implementing, and it's not always the most welcoming to tell them to dive
> into two different W3C specs, even if these specs are relatively brief.
> 
> For users, I know that David Singer had started such an explanatory
> document. Would he or others be interested in updating that, either as an
> unofficial draft or on a wiki somewhere? I know at one point that particular
> unfinished draft was cited as a final specification, which was unfortunate,
> but I still think a user-friendly explanation somewhere will be useful.
> 
> Cheers,
> Nick
> 

David Singer
Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.

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