The World Wide Web Consortium’s Do Not Track...
The World Wide Web Consortium’s Do Not Track working group chairs expressed a desire to continue working during the group’s weekly conference call, according to comments posted to the W3C group’s public forum (http://bit.ly/173tALX). The call was the first time…
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the group had discussed the results of last week’s divisive poll on how, or if, the group should continue (CD Oct 11 p12). Ahead of the call, co-Chairman Carl Cargill, standards principal at Adobe, said the chairs had recognized the desire of a sizable portion of working group members to disband the process, but thought “a considerable number” wanted to keep going. “The [working group] Chairs and W3C Management team feel that there is a desire to move forward, but we also feel” it’s “necessary to spend some effort both improving or changing the plan; and working with the WG to build confidence in the plan,” he wrote. Some group members thought the assumption the group would continue ahead of the conference call was disingenuous. The call is “just window dressing for a predetermined decision by the W3C to disregard the will of the Working Group participants,” wrote Mike Zaneis, general counsel for the Interactive Advertising Bureau. Others were encouraged after the call. Information technology contracts lawyer Walter Van Holst had voted against continuing the working group, but after Wednesday’s call, he wrote: “I wished we had the kind of constructive debate we're having now on the tracking definition at least a year ago.” If that had been the case, he would not have voted to end the working group, he said. But Van Holst remained cautious. “How are we going to prevent ourselves from sliding back into that quagmire,” he wrote.