Re: tracking-ISSUE-258: automatic expiration of a tracking preference [TPE Last Call]

On Sep 23, 2014, at 1:09 , Rob van Eijk <rob@blaeu.com> wrote:

>> If you want to suggest that the UGE APIs contain an expiration parameter,
>> then now is the time to do so.  I think that should be considered a separate
>> issue, since the WP comments were intending a global default.
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> I suggest the UGE APIs to contain an expiration parameter instead of a global default. I agree this should be a seperate issue. The expiration parameter is in line with what has been expressed in the letter from WP29 to the working group.

I am wondering…why do we need to enable the *site* to say it’ll expire?  For cookies, this makes sense (we empty your shopping cart after 24 hours, and so on).  For this, it seems that the site probably has no interest in a limited-time exception.  The *user* might want to configure their UA to prompt them to review UGEs that are old, if they like, but that’s not an API change, is it?


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> mvg::Rob
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> Roy T. Fielding schreef op 2014-09-22 23:17:
>> On Sep 22, 2014, at 12:42 PM, Mike O'Neill wrote:
>>> A sunset period for tracking consent has been called for by the DPAs in Europe with the CNIL specifying no more than 13 months. Some responsible companies may want it to default to less than that, or give the user an option.
>>> There is no reason that the API could not be extended to support that with an expiry/max-age parameter as in cookies. Otherwise it would be left to the user agents to come up with arbitrary defaults.
>> That would be a technical change to the API to be set by each server, not
>> a global default expiration of 13 months (an entirely arbitrary number).
>> If you want to suggest that the UGE APIs contain an expiration parameter,
>> then now is the time to do so.  I think that should be considered a separate
>> issue, since the WP comments were intending a global default.
>> ....Roy
> 

David Singer
Manager, Software Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 24 September 2014 15:59:08 UTC