Re: meaning of DNT 1 and DNT 0 when sent by user agents [ISSUE-78]

Since there are obligations on first parties, and different obligations 
on third parties, I think that receiving the header just tells you how 
*you* need to behave, and doesn't give you any information about what 
header is being sent to other people.

On Fri 13 Jan 2012 02:41:09 PM PST, David Singer wrote:
> In reading a separate thread, I realized that there is a potential issue here over DNT:0.
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> A little while back we discussed whether the UA should send a DNT header to the first party.  A number of us argued that it should, even if the first party is exempt: because the first party may care that its third parties are being asked not to track - it might ask for payment in consequence, for example.
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> This argument relies on the assumption that DNT is a single 'big switch', either on or off, but the discussion around DNT:0 reveals that people think it may be OK for the UA to send DNT:1 to some sites, and DNT:0 to others.
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> So what, then, does the first party get?  DNT:1 if any third party is getting DNT:1, else DNT:0 if all are getting DNT:0?  An average of the DNT values :-) DNT:0.7 ??!
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> Am I, as a UA, allowed to mix non-DNT requests into the mix?
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> David Singer
> Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
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