[TAG] Proposal to obsolete P3P, PICS*, CC/PP*, POWDER #86
Description
title, URL of the document to be obsoleted
- Name: PICS* CC/PP* POWDER*
- Specification URLs:
- https://www.w3.org/TR/?filter-tr-name=cc%2Fpp
- https://www.w3.org/TR/?filter-tr-name=pics
- https://www.w3.org/TR/?filter-tr-name=powder
title, URL of the newer version
None.
Link to group's decision to request obsoleting
https://github.com/w3ctag/meetings/blob/gh-pages/2018/04-tokyo/04-06-minutes.md
Rationale
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2017Apr/0010.html
PICS encompasses a set of four Recommendations from 1997 and 1998,
namely PICS Signed Labels (DSig) 1.0 Specification, PICS 1.1 Label
Distribution -- Label Syntax and Communication Protocols, PICS 1.1
Rating Services and Rating Systems -- and Their Machine Readable
Descriptions, and PICSRules 1.1 Specification. In 2009, PICS was revised
to indicate that its specifications had been superseded.
Accordingly, W3C does not believe PICS has sufficient market relevance
to continue recommending that the community implement it.
In the case of POWDER, it is in the same field as PICS, its primary goal is labelling which did not take off as expected and suffer from the same issue as PICS for this specific use case.
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obsoleting CC/PP, P3P and the PICS suite of specifications is entirely appropriate; they were good efforts, but didn't meet their goals.
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https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-tag/2017Apr/0011.html
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