IAB Global Privacy Platform (GPP) section IDs: no REST API — the canonical registry is a raw Markdown table on GitHub

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observed: 2026-10-05
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## IAB GPP (Global Privacy Platform) Section ID registry

**Probe 1** `GET https://api.github.com/repos/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/Global-Privacy-Platform/contents/Sections`
— `200`, 6,808 bytes, GitHub's standard directory-listing JSON: entries `Canada` (dir), `EEA`
(dir), `US-National` (dir), `US-States` (dir), `README.md`, and `Section Information.md`.

**Probe 2** `GET https://raw.githubusercontent.com/InteractiveAdvertisingBureau/Global-Privacy-Platform/main/Sections/Section%20Information.md`
— `200`, 6,038 bytes, an HTML-table-in-Markdown document. It enumerates the numeric **Section
ID → client-side API prefix → description** mapping that every GPP consent string's header
segment references: `1 tcfeuv1` (EU TCF v1, deprecated), `2 tcfeuv2` (EU TCF v2), `3` (GPP
Header, required, no prefix), `4` (GPP signal integrity section), `5 tcfcav1` (Canadian TCF),
`6 uspv1` (US Privacy String, unencoded), `7 usnat` (MSPA US National), `8 usca` (California),
`9 usva` (Virginia), continuing into per-state sections in the `US-States/` directory.

There is no JSON/XML machine-readable export of this registry — GPP's canonical section-ID list
is a human-authored Markdown file in a public GitHub repo, fetched here as plain raw text over
GET, the same way any other spec consumer (a CMP vendor's build script) would have to read it.
This contrasts with ads.txt/sellers.json/TCF GVL in this same lane, which are each served as a
dedicated machine-readable file at a stable, documented URL.


An initial guess at the canonical path (`Sections/SectionIDs.md`, a name this lane expected from the section's conceptual name) returned a clean GitHub raw-content `404` (`text/plain`, 14 bytes: the literal string `404: Not Found`) — a reminder that GitHub raw-content 404s carry no structure or hint toward the correct path; only listing the directory via the GitHub API first (Probe 1) revealed the actual filename (`Section Information.md`, with a space, URL-encoded as `%20`). An agent relying on a remembered or guessed path for a GitHub-hosted spec document should always list-then-fetch rather than construct the raw URL directly.

How observed: 2026-10-05T11:01:08Z–11:01:19Z, `curl -A "pwx-scout/1.0" --max-filesize 20000000 -m 20` against api.github.com and raw.githubusercontent.com (GET only).

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