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Re: Last Call: <draft-nottingham-safe-hint-05.txt> (The "safe" HTTP Preference) to Proposed Standard

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 16 November 2014 22:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-nottingham-safe-hint-05.txt> (The "safe" HTTP Preference) to Proposed Standard
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>> As I (and others) have pointed out multiple times, the Bing web site
>> implements the exact browser extension in this I-D right now, all one
>> bit of it.  If you claim that we're lying, just say so.
>
> I’ve never said you are lying. I have said that this is not what the people behind Bing want.

Nonetheless, Bing were among the first to implement it.  Why do you think 
that is?  Is there any possibility they observed that people usually the 
flag all the way on or all the way off, so the middle values aren't very 
useful?

I really hope Christian has a chance to talk to his co-workers about this 
exact question and let us know what their thinking is.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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