On 2026-03-02 10:10, Barry wrote: > > >> On 1 Mar 2026, at 20:00, Aaron Rainbolt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> <method name='GetAgeBracket'> > > This assumes that all age verification laws use the same age brackets. > Do you know all law makers are agreed on the brackets? > Does this info need to be combined with geo info to decide on what is > reported? > > Barry > > >
With an overwhelming addiction of age verification laws by legislatures, anything that we do here must be flexible and adaptable to various jurisdictions so the spec will not have to be updated every time a legislature decide to require some creative implementation. Furthermore, in some jurisdictions, requiring users to provide an age to access an operating system and sharing that age to installed software could run afoul of their local privacy laws, so it mustn't be required if the user resides in a jurisdiction without a similar law. Geo info could be difficult to acquire reliably. Off the top of my head I can think of three methods: GeoIP, tzdata, and straight up asking what jurisdiction the user lives in. They each come with their own issues. If the Project used GeoIP, it would require significantly impairing the usage of offline installs. If we used tzdata, it could cause incorrect determinations, (e.g. the Saskatchewan part of Lloydminster, which uses MST (Alberta's primary TZ) instead of CST (Saskatchewan’s timezone), and does not have it's own tzdata entry). If we ask, users can claim that they are in a jurisdiction that they are not in. There's no good solution here. -- Jamie -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
