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Re: [Acme] Terms of service agreement changes

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Wed, 17 August 2016 15:45 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 08:45:05 -0700
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Subject: Re: [Acme] Terms of service agreement changes
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:18 AM, Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <jsha@eff.org> wrote:

> On 08/16/2016 06:38 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > This text seems like an attempt to triangulate between what's the
> > protocol and some notion of user consent (which wasn't really present
> > in the original version). If I were to implement this code, I might
> > well just do:
>
> Are you talking about "client indicates its agreement" vs "client
> indicates its operator's agreement?" I wasn't trying to change the
> meaning here, just fixing what looked like a grammar semantics error.
> But I'm not attached to the fix. I just pushed a change back to:
>
> > If the server provides a terms-of-service URL in the directory, the
> client MUST
> > indicate its agreement to the terms at that URL by including the
>
> Look good now?
>

This still just seems confusing, especially with the MUST.

Without worrying about text, what behavior are you attempting to require the
client to engage in?

-Ekr


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