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Updated the explainer to reflect a broader strategic focus on the Taxonomy API as a general-purpose semantic utility. This revision incorporates feedback regarding the resource overhead of large-scale models and addresses additional considerations for on-device classification.

Key updates:

  • Expanded Use Cases: Covering User Safety (e.g., financial protection) and Intelligent Accessibility as core applications alongside contextual signaling.

  • Privacy Hardening: Formally documented "Statelessness" and "Data Sovereignty" as foundational design goals.

  • Sensitive Content Handling: Added a design section on "Sensitive Category Suppression" to proactively acknowledge and address the handling of high-risk taxonomy branches.

  • Performance Optimization: Refined the technical rationale for a specialized expert model as it addresses community concerns regarding GPU/CPU/memory impact of more generic options (e.g. Prompt API)

  • Taxonomy Interoperability: Updated framing to clarify that IAB V3.1 is an initial, open to feedback, experimental baseline, and with an architectural goal of allowing an expansion for additional / other taxonomies based on demand and impact.

Updated the explainer to reflect a broader strategic focus on the Taxonomy API as a general-purpose semantic utility. This revision incorporates feedback regarding the resource overhead of large-scale models and addresses additional considerations for on-device classification.

Key updates:
 - Expanded Use Cases: Covering User Safety (e.g., financial protection) and Intelligent Accessibility as core applications alongside contextual signaling.

 - Privacy Hardening: Formally documented "Statelessness" and "Data Sovereignty" as foundational design goals.

 - Sensitive Content Handling: Added a design section on "Sensitive Category Suppression" to proactively acknowledge and address the handling of high-risk taxonomy branches.

 - Performance Optimization: Refined the technical rationale for a specialized expert model as it addresses community concerns regarding GPU/CPU/memory impact of more generic options (e.g. Prompt API)

 - Taxonomy Interoperability: Updated framing to clarify that IAB V3.1 is an initial, open to feedback, experimental baseline, and with an architectural goal of allowing an expansion for additional / other taxonomies based on demand and impact.
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