RE: purposes additions to TPE

Hi Aleecia,

Its not a change I made, I used the tracking-dnt.html document in the Github as a base.
The readable version of that is:
https://w3c.github.io/dnt/drafts/tracking-dnt.html

I just added a new 5.2.1 (the purposes qualifier) and redid the old 5.2.1 "Extensions to the DNT field Value" paragraph and made it 5.2.2:
https://w3c.github.io/dnt/drafts/purposes-snapshotmay2018.html

I also changed 6.6.1 (adding the new parameter to the API to specify the DNT field value), and added the new TSR Purposes property at 7.5.10


Maybe Roy can shed some light on the change you found?

I agree the last paragraph of 5.1 does not add anything to the TPE and strays into areas best left to policy law.


Mike



-----Original Message-----
From: Aleecia M. McDonald <aleecia@aleecia.com> 
Sent: 13 May 2018 02:41
To: public-tracking@w3.org (public-tracking@w3.org) (public-tracking@w3.org) <public-tracking@w3.org>
Subject: Re: purposes additions to TPE

Forgive me Mike, I’m about to derail the thread for a second. In starting to read this I noticed that in 5.1, we no longer say a general purpose user agent must not send a TPE, we just say user agent. This reads as if an extension for privacy must not set DNT:1, which is contrary to what we’d had. 

Is this a deliberate change?

The final paragraph of 5.1 has always been both contentious and poorly drafted (I’ll take blame for the later as result of the former.) Rather than re-open the normative text, I suggest we just give an example of interpreting DNT unset as DNT:1 in the EU and DNT:0 in the US. 

Does anyone object?

 Aleecia

> On May 7, 2018, at 3:35 AM, Mike O'Neill <michael.oneill@baycloud.com> wrote:
> 
> As requested in the last call I have created a PR against master for the
> purpose changes.
> 
> This is a readable snapshot of the document showing the TPE if the PR is
> merged:
> 
> https://w3c.github.io/dnt/drafts/purposes-snapshotmay2018.html
> 
> See 5.2.1, 5.2.2, 6.6.1 and 7.5.10
> 
> Mike
> 
>

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