Re: AW: Disavowing Legal Liability

on 9/20/01 11:18 AM, Andreas Färber at andreas.faerber@web.de wrote:

> Neither Microsoft nor W3C forces anyone to write P3P policies.

This doesn't seem quite fair.

The company I work for has happily delivered 'third-party' content to paying
affiliates for a while now with everything working flawlessly.

With the emergence of IE6's implementation of part of the P3P spec, I am
indeed being forced to write and implement a P3P policy in order to continue
to do business as we always have. And we do nothing covert with a user's
data EVER. Everything is given freely and with knowledge by the user so the
user can get (in our case) personalized weather information and we never
sell or share the info.

It's very frustrating to have played very honestly with users for as long as
we've done business, and find that we are presented with a new standard that
breaks our product and so far can't be implemented to a degree satisfactory
to IE6.

I am supportive of P3P, but I think what you said (above) might show that
you may not have forseen some some of the issues involved in implementing
it, and that it's not just a philosophical issue... at this point it's an
issue that threatens our business and our relationship with our paying
affiliates across the nation.

Ken Martin

Received on Thursday, 20 September 2001 12:49:01 UTC