- From: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>
- Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 02:42:43 +0100
- To: Roberto Peon <grmocg@gmail.com>
- CC: Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, "tsvwg@ietf.org" <tsvwg@ietf.org>
Not really on topic for this but... On 09/04/2013 01:35 AM, Roberto Peon wrote: > Deployed is the most important feature No. "A very important" feature, yes. "The" most important, no, not in all cases. To take one example: Passwords are by far the most commonly deployed web user authentication mechanism. That is only because we believe we lack a better solution and is a crap situation that gets more crap the more that passwords are deployed. In that case, more deployment == more crap. And maybe I'm wrong, but I mostly seem to hear the deployment-is-all argument from folks with existing large deployments, which of course makes it a suspiciously self-serving argument. That is no criticism of the people making that argument, e.g. I have eventually realised how often I've fallen into similar traps myself. But its still notable. S.
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