P3P Specification Working Group
list of documents

Current working drafts

• P3P1.1 Specification, W3C Public Working Draft 4 January 2005

  This Draft replaces the old P3P 1.0 Base Data Schema with a new dataschema making use of XML Schema. It also contains some smaller changes that are marked up and easily visible. The changes to the charmod specification are already taken into account.

• P3P1.1 Specification, W3C Pre-Public Working Draft 19 November 2004

  This Draft replaces the old P3P 1.0 Base Data Schema with a new dataschema making use of XML Schema. It is a pre-Draft until the end of the publication moratorium

• P3P Using the Semantic Web (OWL Ontology, RDF Policy and RDQL Rules)

  This document describes a framework for describing P3P policies according to the semantics described in the P3P 1.0 specification, using the technologies of W3C's Semantic Web initiative. It is supported by an open source demonstration implementation of a P3P user agent using the framework.

• P3P1.1 Specification, W3C Public Working Draft 20 July 2004

  This Draft is almost complete. The transition of the base data schema to XML Schema is not included yet, but all other deliverables from the P3P 1.1 Workshops in (Dulles/VAand Kiel that were laid out at the beginning of the WG

• P3P1.1 Specification, W3C Public Working Draft 27 April 2004

• W3C P3P 1.1 First Public Working Draft
  Cranor et.al 10 February 2004

  This is the specification of the Platform for Privacy Preferences 1.1 (P3P 1.1). This document, along with its normative references, includes all the specification necessary for the implementation of interoperable P3P 1.1 applications. P3P 1.1 is based on the P3P 1.0 Recommendation and adds some features using the P3P 1.0 Extension mechanism. It also contains a new binding mechanism that can be used to bind policies for XML Applications beyond HTTP transactions.

• P3P 1.1 Domain Relationships
  Jack Humphrey 30 March 2004

  This document specifies the expression of relationsships between different hosts by extending the syntax and semantics of the Policy Reference File.

• P3P1.1: Data Schemas in XML Schema
  - Giles Hogben 1 October 2003

  The possible extention mechanism to define new datatypes a part from the base dataschema was defined in P3P 1.0 in some very exotic format. This draft describes how to do Data Schemas in XML-Schema within W3C. In P3P 1.1 it will replace the actual section 5

Other documents

• 3.3.5.1 The PPURPOSE element (EXTENSION) - Lorrie Cranor/Serge Egelman, David Stampley

  18 June 2004

• Activity Statement for the P3P Specification Group 1.1

• Charter for the P3P Specification Group 1.1

• P3P 1.1 Specification Task Forces - Lorrie Cranor
  March 2003

• Report on the W3C Workshop on the Future of P3P -Lorrie Cranor & Daniel J. Weitzner

  December 2002

• Next Steps Document -a compilation from the Workshop Summary Report

• Backwards compatibility in P3P 1.1 - A consensus from the 7 May 2003 callNext steps

Task Force Documents

Making the vocabulary compliant to Art. 10 of the EU Directive

• Issues around Art. 10 of the European Data Protection Directive
• Report for DG Markt and the Internet Task Force of Art 29 WP on Status of recommendations for W3C's P3P Standard
• Proposed Resolution from Giles

Primary data uses and general review of the vocabulary

Indication of Agent Status, Multiple Domains Owned by One Company

1. See also the Current Draft on domain relationsships
2. P3P 1.1 Domain Relationships

Compact Policies

Scope Description

Improvements to APPEL language

Convert P3P data schema to XML schema

• Explanation
• Transform Example
  • p3ptransform.html (IE-XML-transform-file, attention, extension confusing)
  • p3ptransform.xml (instance data)
  • p3ptransform.xsl (XSLT Stylesheet)
• Transform in one step
  • bdstransformAllinOne.html
  • bdstransform.xml
  • bdstransformAllinOne.xsl
  • bds.xml
  • bds.xsd
• Transform in two steps
  • bdstransformin2.html
  • bdstransform.xml
  • bdstransform1.xsl
  • bdstransform2.xsl
  • bdstransforminitial.xml
  • bdstransformresult1.xml
  • bdsfinal.xsd
  • bds.xml
• Transformation from XSD back
  • 05-p3ptransformbackwards.xsl
  • 05-forwardresult.xml

Coordination with other efforts

XML signed policy specification

Completed deliverables

• P3P Consent/Choices Definition Mechanism

• Use of P3P Vocabulary independent of http binding (Patrick Hung)

• User Agent Behavior (Lorrie Cranor)

• Ambiguities in P3P 1.0

• Workshop on the Future of P3P (Dulles/Virginia)
• W3C Workshop on the long term Future of P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages (Kiel/Germany)
• W3C - Event on P3P and Enterprise Privacy Languages (Sydney/ Australia)

• P3P 1.0 Recommendation