How does traditional legal infrastructure interoperate with the functional rules of Internet computer communication protocols?
2. Cookies are an example of technology creating de facto public policy. In order to enable a consumer to communicate with a website, some information has to be exchanged. However, the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), the communications protocol for the World Wide Web, creates a stateless or connectionless medium where a consumer connects to a website, receives a single web page from that site and the connection ends. In order for user preferences and purchasing information to be transmitted effectively, some information about the consumer and its transactions with the website need to persist beyond the end of the connection. Hence, storage of stateful or transaction-related information on the client side is necessary to overcome all inherently connectionless nature of HTTP if a consumer is going to be able to conveniently submit information to websites as they go from page to page, connection to connection. Such information may be product or service purchasing information that is a
