[Responder] Jack Hobaugh [Objections to Option A] 
In general, I object to the porting of a TCS compliance definition into the TPE. I feel strongly that the TPE should remain a pure protocol and technical specification document. Some have contended that some TCS definitions are needed in the TPE in order for the consumer to understand the choice that the consumer is making regarding the DNT signal. This is simply not the case. A technical specification need only specify the requests and responses necessary for a DNT protocol to be implemented in a scalable and implementable solution across all browsers and the servers called. The intended audience for the TPE is made up of technical implementers such as software engineers, developers, and programmers. To be clear, the TPE should not take on the responsibility of informing consumers and attorneys regarding a policy or compliance choice but instead should inform the technical community on how to implement the technical solution. The compliance specification for the DNT signal should be left to the compliance regime, whether it is a national compliance regime, a W3C-based compliance regime or an industry-based compliance regime. Porting definitions from a particular compliance regime into the TPE only serves to provide an incomplete and confusing picture to the software engineers, developers, and programmers who will be tasked with implementing the technical protocol.