No problem on the duplicate, ive marked you as a "trusted" user now so you no longer need moderation. As for our plans, at present I have a task down for 6.2.1 to look at this - the lack of any clarity and ambiguous assessments is very annoying. I've already looked at the other popular CMS's and they're equally as confused and most of them are taking an approach of creating modules to handle this (e.g. http://drupal.org/node/1153064) so that the first time a user access's a site they will get a popup message asking them to confirm cookies are ok (ironically the answer to this is then saved in a cookie :) ) - we may end up going a similar way rather than baking a solution into the core that may end up wrong and also end up requiring an upgrade to resolve.

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I don't think it is as simple as that though.

Even in the links you provided it specifically says that if a cookie is NOT strictly necessary then they need to be explicitly opted into.

Depending on what you use from the core of DNN is what cookies it stores. Tiny example being one where containers can have the ability to collapse/expand. To give a consistent user experience when you collapse/expand a container this info is stored in a cookie so when the user returns it sets that container to what you previously set it to.

Either way I don't think it is strictly true to say that it doesn't require user consent. Now, correct me if I am wrong, if you have functional/performance cookies (Category 2/3) then while you don't need to strictly gain consent from the user you still need to actively notify the user and allow them to *accept/change* these cookies/settings. Which, in this case, is what BT pretty much do.

 It's a grey line and will most likely be challenged for many months to come. I really do hope DNN come up with something though.

FYI here is a slightly old list of cookie usage - http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Wiki/Page/DotNetNuke-Cookie-usage.aspx . It needs to be updated as the jquery UI pieces such as tabs/panels create cookies to remember the last opened location. It also doesnt cover optional modules such as google analytics.

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