Re: [webrtc-stats] Add networkType fingerprint warning

> what is the purpose of the last sentence "Implementations may decide to not expose this member."?

Just a way to express the fact that some implementations do not plan to expose this member. There is no constraints whatever the form.
There is some consensus between I and @juberti to make it a SHOULD.
@vr000m, @lennart-csio, is that ok with you? 
If so, I'll update the PR accordingly.

FWIW, I would tend to investigate various approaches:
- Never expose this information when there is no need: no connection or connection is good. It is always possible to abuse this but would require the fingerprinter to do actual network traffic which is costly
- Expose that information as part of UA information gathering, not as part of JS stats
- Enable the possibility for UA to easily generate more detailed reports that a user consciously accept to give to the web application, something like an easily uploadable chrome://webrtc-internals/

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