Re: Candidate Recomendation

We're doing our best to get a proposed recommendation
ready ASAP. Barring any major problems, we expect to
submit the PR to the W3C membership some time in
January.

Lorrie Cranor
P3P Specification Working Group Chair

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Turner" <dt@od2.com>
To: "'P3p-Policy'" <www-p3p-policy@w3.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 3:54 AM
Subject: Candidate Recomendation


> Hya,
> 
>   We (On Demand Distribution PLC) have been trying to keep up to date
> with the development of the P3P specification due to the majority of our
> clients using Internet Explorer 6.  We have had problems from our first
> attempt to implement the specification, not really with it not working,
> but being unable to get consistent results.  However we now find
> ourselves in a position where our setup is adequate and other than
> generally keeping the "privacy" side of the platform up to date, we
> planned to stop updating to the latest P3P specification, until final
> agreement has been reached on what it will actually be.  Therefore my
> question is; is there any proposed timescale for a) movement to the next
> stage of specification development (erm, Proposed Recommendation I
> believe) b) for a final specification to be released.
> 
> 
>    I understand that development of a standard such as this is complex,
> but the feeling here and amongst other Content Providers I have spoken
> to in the UK is that whilst IE6 is not giving consistent results as
> regards P3P, sites are using erroneous privacy statements to get around
> problems and users are just setting there privacy setting to low.  If
> this goes on for a lot longer, I feel that the procedure for using P3P
> will become more of an annoyance and switched off rather than widely
> adopted and used, as we all hope for.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Dave Turner
> dt@od2.com
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> Notice: All opinions expressed in this Email are my own and are no
> reflection on the policies or opinions of On Demand Distribution PLC
> (http://www.od2.com).
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 5 December 2001 08:58:15 UTC