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Re: Last Call: <draft-nottingham-safe-hint-05.txt> (The "safe" HTTP Preference) to Proposed Standard

2014-10-27 18:14:18
On Oct 27, 2014, at 3:54 PM, Brian E Carpenter 
<brian(_dot_)e(_dot_)carpenter(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
On 28/10/2014 06:57, John Levine wrote:
As it is the meaning of a safe hint is to be intuited by the recipient.

Yes.  That's not a bug.

I don't understand the point of hypothetical arguments about whether a
safe flag might be useful.  We already know the answer: Many of the
largest web services in the world already have one.  Youtube puts
theirs right on the home page.

John, I don't think the argument is about whether it will work technically
or whether it will be used. The argument is about whether this is something
that the IETF should endorse as a Proposed Standard, which implies that
we think it will be effective.

Just to be clear: are you saying that you believe that those large web 
properties already doing this has *not* been effective? I have to believe that 
they have spent more time than us measuring that, and that they came to the 
conclusion that it was continuing to be effective.

--Paul Hoffman


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