HTTP Cookies: Standards, Privacy, and Politics. Kristol, D. M. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 1(2):151-198, November, 2001.
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How did we get from a world where cookies were something you ate and where "non-techies" were unaware of "Netscape cookies" to a world where cookies are a hot-button privacy issue for many computer users? This paper will describe how HTTP "cookies" work, and how Netscape's original specification evolved into an IETF Proposed Standard. I will also offer a personal perspective on how what began as a straightforward technical specification turned into a political flashpoint when it tried to address non-technical issues such as privacy.
@article{ kri01,
  author = {David M. Kristol},
  title = {HTTP Cookies: Standards, Privacy, and Politics},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Internet Technology},
  year = {2001},
  month = {November},
  volume = {1},
  number = {2},
  pages = {151-198},
  doi = {10.1145/502152.502153},
  topic = {cookie[0.9] http[0.8]},
  abstract = {How did we get from a world where cookies were something you ate and where "non-techies" were unaware of "Netscape cookies" to a world where cookies are a hot-button privacy issue for many computer users? This paper will describe how HTTP "cookies" work, and how Netscape's original specification evolved into an IETF Proposed Standard. I will also offer a personal perspective on how what began as a straightforward technical specification turned into a political flashpoint when it tried to address non-technical issues such as privacy.}
}

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