On Sat, 26 May 2001, Differentiated Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is related to other thread on user tracking
> I've been reading up a bit on the upcoming IE6 release.
> Couple of facts which may bite some of our software are
> a) By default 3rd party cookies are to be disabled in IE6

Eek. Spot the number one feature for "Do not show this again" being
checked.

> b) Implementation of P3P in IE 6.

... Which yet again isn't even into Recommendation status at the W3C
(granted, it's in CR stage where they wait for implementations to reveal
problems, and so you can't get out of that until there are
implementations, etc). Sounds familiar to XSLT developers out there.

> Our software is a 3rd party adserver which uses cookies. (We are not using it for 
>privacy but find it more convenient to track clickthroughs).
> We are planning to have a minor release of our software in the post IE6 era.
> We wanted thots on
> -- How are other people going to handle cookies with IE 6. Have any of you tested it 
>?
> -- Links / material which will help us understand P3P in the context of cookies. 
>Most links we found are talking about the full-policy of disclosing privacy info. We 
>wanted more info on the compact policy of handling cookies.

Have you been straight to the source?

http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-P3P-20001215/
and
http://www.w3.org/P3P/

Lots and lots of info there.

-- 
<Matt/>

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