Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] "External observers" is undefined (#3448)

ekr <notifications@github.com> Tue, 11 February 2020 15:23 UTC

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On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 7:05 AM D. Ebdrup <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 11, 2020 at 6:31 AM D. Ebdrup *@*.***> wrote: Thanks for
> pointing me here, Martin. :) Cooperation, to me and seemingly according to
> the second definition of Merrian-Webster
> https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cooperation, seems to imply
> that even just two parties (one first-party and one third-party, for
> example) are cooperating on something, especially considering the example
> underneath given involves trade and economy.
> I agree with your definition, but I don't understand your point.
>
> My point in the initial email to Martin was that the language seems to
> provide for companies to share Connection ID data, or data derived from it,
> with third parties - so long as the companies have legal contracts defining
> that they are cooperating.
>
Yes, or without contracts for that matter. The point of "cooperating" is
not to restrict commercial agreements but to technically define the privacy
properties we expect CID construction to provide.


> That doesn't seem, to me at least, to be a good idea when a bit of more
> precise use of language (such as the regular expression above by Martin,
> with a modification to allow for load-balancers, as rightly pointed out)
> could very easily nip it in the butt, as it were. :
>
I'm not particularly a huge fan of tracking either, but that's not the
issue here. We're not the protocol police and this text is not about
setting business policy. It's a technical requirement to forbid designs
which would be insecure.


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