Re: The "nomap" Network Identifier Suffix

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

In article <[e-mail]> you write:
>Tastes like the ‘evil’ bit, in reverse.

And it has the same problem as do-not-track, there's no way to tell
whether people you don't trust are following it.

Do-not-track is sort of modeled on do-not-call, which is self
documenting in the sense that if someone ignores it, you can tell
because your phone rings and it's a telemarketer.  But if they ignore
do not track or do not map, you can tell, how?  Suspiciously relevant
ads on your device?

This is worse than nothing because it gives naive people a false sense
of control.  Real control is fine, knowing you don't have control is
tolerable, thinking you do when you don't is bad.

R's,
John