Re: ONLINE-ADS>> A Proposal for Browser Data

Bruce G Woodward (bgw_at_xcert.com)
Thu, 16 Jan 97 07:33:33 -0500

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> Mon, 13 Jan 1997 11:14:18 -0800 Mark J. Welch wrote:
> >The point is not to design something that works for my business
> >-- it's to design something that works for consumers. Something
> >to simplify the consumer's life without invading privacy. As you
> >note, cookies are designed to PREVENT sharing of data between
> >servers, not to permit it.
>

An attempt to deal with the privacy issues facing consumers has been
launched by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) and
CommerceNet (http://www.commerce.net) in an initiative they call eTrust
(http://www.etrust.org). They are currently looking for pilot members for
their Trustmarks project. They seem to have a pretty good handle on the
issues. Hopefully they will succeed.

Patrik Nilsson wrote:

> There's even a part of the LDAP specifications specifically included to
> define standard "Business Card" type information.
> Some general LDAP stories:

Some additional resources regarding LDAP and vCard are:
LDAP reources
http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/ldap/ldap.html

RFC 1959: An LDAP URL: specification
ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc1959.txt

vCard electronic business card specification
http://www.versit.com/

vCard implementation as a MIME part.
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-asid-mime-vcard-01.txt

Directory services and certificate based security will become essential
components of any web site that engages the community model.

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Have fun! If we can help, please let us know.

Bruce
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