- From: Humphrey, Jack <JHumphrey@coremetrics.com>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 17:34:41 -0600
- To: "'www-p3p-policy@w3.org'" <www-p3p-policy@w3.org>
For full policies, are the categories associated with the #dynamic.cookies data element supposed to represent the type of data stored in the cookie, or any data linked by the cookie? If the latter (any data linked by the cookie), does that data need to be reclared in the same data group, e.g. using #dynamic.miscdata? For example, if you store a unique id in the cookie, and collect navigation and interactive user information that is tied to the user via the unique id in the cookie, does the data group need to look like this? <data ref="#dynamic.cookies"> <categories> <uniqueid> <navigation> <interactive> </categories> </data> <data ref="#dynamic.miscdata"> <categories> <uniqueid> </categories> </data> <data ref="#dynamic.miscdata"> <categories> <navigation> </categories> </data> <data ref="#dynamic.miscdata"> <categories> <interactive> </categories> </data> ...or can the <navigation> and <interactive> elements be removed from the cookies data element? Or perhaps the miscdata elements are redundant and not necessary? If you write a policy like the one above, Internet Explorer will duplicate information in the human-readable interpretation. It will look something like this: What kind of information does this Web site collect? Unique identifiers issued by a Web site or service... Information generated by browsing the Web site... Information generated from or reflectig explicit interations... Unique identifiers issued by a Web site or service... Information generated by browsing the Web site... Information generated from or reflectig explicit interations... It would be nice to be able to avoid this redundancy in IE's interpretation, but if the policy as written above is correct, then it's really an IE issue. Appreciate any guidance. Jack Humphrey
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