Are P3P policies still recommended?

W3C work on P3P suspended in 2006

[bill]

I have an old site with a valid P3P policy. I was looking to update my site's privacy policy and to translate it into several languages. So I started looking through all my old P3P resources, but I quickly noticed that there hasn't been much recent discussion of this. Then I found this notice that in November 2006 the P3P Specification Working Group closed [w3.org]. The P3P homepage states Status: P3P Work suspended [w3.org]. They point to lack of browser support as one of the reasons for suspending their work.

The last time I worked on a privacy policy I went through all the steps to be compliant with P3P. If work on P3P has been stopped is it still worth it to add this to your sites?

[phranque]

here's the "latest" on privacy from the new W3C site:
Privacy - W3C [w3.org]

it doesn't seem like much is happening there yet but there may be some resources linked you didn't see before.

[bill]

Thanks phranque. The new formatting of the W3C site does add a new dimension, but I'm still not clear.

The P3P1.0 Specification [w3.org] page says it's an official specification and is recommended by the W3C, albeit dated 2002. The P3P Current Status [w3.org] page says that it's a Completed Work.

Is anyone still using P3P on their sites? Are you recommending it for new site builds?