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Submission request to W3C (Team Comment)
Web Tracking Protection Submission Request to W3C
Submitted Materials
We, W3C Member:
- Microsoft Corporation
hereby submit to the Consortium the following specification, comprising the following document attached hereto:
which is referred to as "the Submission". We request the Submission be known as the Web Tracking Protection Submission.
Abstract
The Web Tracking Protection specification is designed to enable users to opt-out of online tracking. The platform has two parts:
- Filter lists, which can enforce user privacy preferences by preventing the user agent from making unwanted requests to webservers that track users.
- A user preference, which is an HTTP header and a DOM property, to be used by webservers to respect the user’s privacy.
Together these technologies can be used to enforce privacy protection for users, and provide access to content and services that respect user privacy preferences.
A filter list contains parts of third-party URIs that a browser may access automatically when referenced within a web page that a user deliberately visits. Rules in a filter list may change the way the user agent handles third-party content. By limiting the calls to these websites and blocking resources from other web pages, the filter list limits the information other sites can collect about a user.
The Do Not Track user preference is a setting maintained by the user agent. It can be read by a webserver or client JavaScript. A webserver that respects the Do Not Track user preference will read this value and will not track the user when this setting is enabled.
Intellectual Property Statements
Copyrights
Microsoft Corporation hereby grants to the W3C a perpetual, nonexclusive, royalty-free, world-wide right and license under any Microsoft Corporation copyrights on this contribution, to copy, publish and distribute the contribution under the W3C document licenses.
Additionally, should the Submission be used as a contribution towards a W3C Activity, Microsoft Corporation grants a right and license of the same scope to any derivative works prepared by the W3C and based on, or incorporating all or part of, the contribution. Microsoft Corporation further agrees that any derivative works of this contribution prepared by the W3C shall be solely owned by the W3C.
Should the Submission not be used as a contribution towards a W3C Activity, change control of the Submission shall remain with the Submitters/Authors.
Patents
The organization I represent on the W3C Advisory Committee agrees to offer licenses according to the W3C Royalty-Free licensing requirements described in section 5 of the 5 February 2004 W3C Patent Policy for any portion of the Submission that is subsequently incorporated in a W3C Recommendation.
Suggested action
We suggest that the Consortium start a Working Group whose mission is to produce a W3C Recommendation for Web Tracking Protection by refining the Submission, addressing implementation experience and interoperability feedback from the Submission.
Resources
To help with this work, we expect we expect to provide assistance as needed to the Consortium.
Contact
Inquiries from the public or press about this Submission should be directed to:
- PR Lead:
- Leonardo Ortiz-Villacorta +1 (425) 538-6680
- Agency Lead:
- Tarah Walberg +1 (503) 443-7000
Submitted
this (11th day of February, 2011),
Microsoft Corporation (Michael Champion)