Editorial: Regarding partition definition and storage

[ianbjacobs]

Hi all,

Section 2.1 includes this phrase as the last part of the definition of partition:

"between points in time that the person or user agent clears that site's cookies and other storage (which is sometimes automatic at the end of each session)."

A few thoughts:

• It seems like you only need to refer to the previous "point in time."
• It also seems like the important point in time is when the site goes from zero stored information to some stored information. In my head, the period between "zero stored" and "some stored" is not of interest (but I could be wrong).

So maybe something like:

"since the most recent moment when that site's stored information in the user agent went from "none" to "some."

The existing sentence also uses the term "session." The term does not appear elsewhere in the document, and so it appears not to be an important concept to define further. I feel like it could be dropped entirely, so the original sentence could be:

"between points in time that the person manually clears or the user agent automatically clears that site's cookies and other storage."

Ian

[darobin]

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