Understanding P3P - Endgame
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While P3P is not yet an official W3C recommendation, the specification is almost final, with the most recent Working Draft published in September 2001. Consequently, a number of companies, most notably IBM, Microsoft and, have begun adding P3P support into upcoming products; you'll find early P3P support in Internet Explorer 6.0 and AT&T WorldNet browsers.

If you're interested in learning more about P3P, you might want to consider visiting the following links:

The P3P FAQ, at http://www.w3.org/P3P/p3pfaq.html

The W3C's official P3P specification, at http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-P3P-20010928/

A W3C guide to defining and publishing a P3P-compliant privacy policy for your site, at http://www.w3.org/P3P/details.html

Examples and links to implementations of the P3P specification, at http://www.w3.org/P3P/implementations

And that's about it for the moment. I hope you found this article useful, and that it offered some broad insight into the why and how of P3P. Till next time...stay healthy!

Note: Examples are illustrative only, and are not meant for a production environment. YMMV!

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