draft-ietf-usefor-article-06 and last call
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[email protected] (Brad Templeton) wrote on 18.12.01 in <[email protected]>:
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The overriding consideration is that the defaults must not break the network. This is
_moreimportant_than protecting the privacy of users, because on a Usenet that isn't usable it matters very little whether anyone has privacy or not.
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But we should not standardize wrong solutions either.
Indeed, but you don't standardize bad practice just because it's existent!
It's a very close analogy to security. Systems should not fail open, they should fail close.
The bad practise is software that does not, by default, identify its users. Whoever wants to allow users to post non-identifiable MUST be prepared to use other means to prevent abuse, and so this MUST be a conscious decision and not a default.
MfG Kai