Users and Agents

Consider a technology like P3P that permits users to set or borrow rules about the proposals she will accept from services. If the proposal is accepted by the rules, the service and user have an agreement!

In contrast, the revised UCC 2B draft (now UCITA) primarily concerns itself with permitting services to exercise the necessary formalities to bind users to agreements that the users cannot possible understand.

Instead, P3P captures the semantics of a privacy agreement in a machine readable and understandable data format. The agent can then help the user with information/proposal retrieval, parsing, and processing!