- From: Rigo Wenning <rigo@w3.org>
- Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 12:00:40 +0200
- To: Yuwei Lin <yl107@york.ac.uk>
- Cc: "www-p3p-public-comments@w3.org" <www-p3p-public-comments@w3.org>
Dear Yuwei Lin, Lorrie Cranor from AT&T is currently under way to write a book on the start and development of P3P. There were many actors from industry, NGO's and the education area. The idea was already around for some time (according to Lorrie Cranor) and was then brought to the W3C for further development. Please look at the FAQ for further information[1]. There were bottlenecks: In 1998, Intermind claimed to have a Patent, which would apply also to the implementation on P3P. This stopped the further development for some time. W3C ordered an expertise from a very senior patent attorney[2]. The result of this expertise was, that implementing P3P would not infringe the Intermind-Patent. P3P, as it was planned in the first place, was very complex. To encourage implementation and deployment, the Working Group decided to start with a very simple version 1.0 and report the complicated things -like the negotiation protocol- to a future version 2.0. But no, there was no hacking and cracking and violation of network security needed or operated for the development of P3P. I think, I can exclude that for W3C as a whole. Best, Rigo Wenning W3C/INRIA Policy Analyst Privacy Activity Lead mail:rigo@w3.org 2004, Routes des Lucioles +33 (0)6 73 84 87 31 F-06902 Sophia Antipolis http://www.w3.org/ On Fri, May 18, 2001 at 10:17:14AM -0400, Yuwei Lin wrote: > > Hello, > I am doing my PhD thesis on ICT innovation. I am very curious about the > actors involving in the development of P3P. Can anyone provide me > information about the process of P3P invention and the detailed actor > list? What I am more interested is that, is there any battleneck > happened on the innovation process and is there any actor involving in > violating network security for testing, for example hacking or cracking? > All answers are welcome. > > Best, > Yuwei Lin 2. http://www.w3.org/1999/10/28-P3P-IntermindPatentAnalysis-PressRelease.html 1. http://www.w3.org/P3P/p3pfaq.html
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