The current text is unclear. Does "!" mean a website is testing DNT? Or does it mean general noncompliance? Here's an alternative: "The origin server is presently testing the tracking protection protocol and tracking compliance policy. The server is not compliant with either recommendation." Jonathan On Monday, February 11, 2013 at 2:15 AM, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On Feb 10, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Jonathan Mayer wrote: > > > Some (myself included) object to a general signal for noncompliance. The shared concern is that websites will claim they "implement Do Not Track" (i.e. the TPE protocol) when they do not implement the TCS compliance policy. > > > > There seemed to be greater comfort with a noncompliance signal scoped solely to temporary testing. I would still be uneasy. > > > > Jonathan > > > Please direct your comments to the specific proposal that appears > in the editors' draft: > > http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/drafts/tracking-dnt.html#tracking-status-value > > I believe that both the first paragraph of 5.2 and the definition > provided for the ! status are quite clear and cannot be confused > with implementing the tracking protection protocol. If you don't > think so, please provide alternate wording. > > I am less sure about confusion regarding implementing Do Not Track, > since we haven't defined that, but I seriously doubt that there > is any incentive whatsoever for sites to say that they implement > DNT when they don't actually do so. > > ....Roy
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