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Submission request to W3C (W3C Team Comment)


We, W3C members Microsoft and Citibank, N.A. ("Citibank"), hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification comprising the document linked below:

  1. Using P3P for Ecommerce

which is referred to as "the submission". We request the submission be known as the Using P3P for Ecommerce submission.

Abstract

P3P does not currently have a data schema that allows merchants to express privacy practices or present to users P3P proposals for data required as part of an electronic commerce transaction.  Given that online shopping is one of the most popular uses of the Internet, it is important for P3P to address ecommerce.  The proposal being submitted herein provides an ECML compliant ecommerce schema and some simple privacy and security guidelines businesses can follow when using P3P to express ecommerce privacy practices and proposals.

Intellectual Property Rights

Declaration of Microsoft Corporation:

Microsoft hereby grants to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive, non-sublicensable, non assignable, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any Microsoft copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution, as well as a right and license of the same scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part of the contribution.

Microsoft further agrees that, upon adoption of this contribution as a Standard, Microsoft will grant to any Member a royalty-free license on other reasonable and non-discriminatory terms under applicable Microsoft intellectual property rights to implement and use the technology proposed in this contribution only to the extent that the use and implementation of such intellectual property rights are necessary to implement the Standard.  Microsoft expressly reserves all other rights it may have in the material and subject matter of this contribution. The licensing commitments made hereunder do not include any license for implementation of other published specifications developed elsewhere but referred to in this contribution.

This document and the information contained herein is provided on an "AS IS" basis and MICROSOFT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT WILL MICROSOFT BE LIABLE TO ANY OTHER PARTY INCLUDING THE W3C AND ITS MEMBERS FOR THE COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR SPECIAL DAMAGES WHETHER UNDER CONTRACT, TORT, WARRANTY, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THIS OR ANY OTHER AGREEMENT RELATING TO THIS DOCUMENT, WHETHER OR NOT SUCH PARTY HAD ADVANCE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Declaration of Citibank, N.A.:

Citibank hereby grants to the W3C, a perpetual, nonexclusive, non-sublicensable, non assignable, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any Citibank copyrights in this contribution to copy, publish and distribute the contribution, as well as a right and license of the same scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part of the contribution.

Citibank further agrees that, upon adoption of this contribution as a Standard, Citibank will grant to any Member a royalty-free license on other reasonable and non-discriminatory terms under applicable Citibank intellectual property rights to implement and use the technology proposed in this contribution only to the extent that the use and implementation of such intellectual property rights are necessary to implement the Standard. Citibank expressly reserves all other rights it may have in the material and subject matter of this contribution. The licensing commitments made hereunder does not include any license for implementation of other published specifications developed elsewhere but referred to in this contribution.

This document and the information contained herein is provided on an "AS IS" basis and CITIBANK DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

IN NO EVENT WILL CITIBANK BE LIABLE TO ANY OTHER PARTY INCLUDING THE W3C AND ITS MEMBERS FOR THE COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, LOST PROFITS, LOSS OF USE, LOSS OF DATA, OR ANY INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR SPECIAL DAMAGES WHETHER UNDER CONTRACT, TORT, WARRANTY, OR OTHERWISE, ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THIS OR ANY OTHER AGREEMENT RELATING TO THIS DOCUMENT, WHETHER OR NOT SUCH PARTY HAD ADVANCE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

Names

The following are registered marks referred to in this request or the submission: (none known)

Specification

The submission may distributed within the membership of the W3C free of any fee.

The submission may be distributed publicly free of any fee under the redistribution terms expressed in the W3C copyright statement.

Suggested action

We suggest that the Consortium publish this document as a Note on the W3C site at the URL  http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-P3P-ecom and provide a link to the Note from the P3P homepage at http://www.w3.org/P3P.

Resources

Microsoft and Citibank will provide document editors as needed for this work.

Change control

We are open to working with W3C and its members to produce future versions of this proposal or its derivatives.

Contact

Inquiries from the public or press about this submission should be directed to: Joe Coco (joecoco@microsoft.com), Microsoft, 425-703-1222 or Dan Schutzer (dan.schutzer@citicorp.com), Citibank, 212-559-1876.

Submitted

this 4th day of Oct, 1999

Dan Schutzer, Citibank
Joe Coco, Microsoft