Past history is a good indicator of problems that may arise. Past history is a very bad guarantee that problems will not arise in the future. On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 7:54 PM, Masataka Ohta<mohta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > >> Past history is no guarantee of future performance. > > Is your argument applicable to the following statement you just made > yesterday? > > : Trust roots have to be valid for at least a decade to be acceptable to > : the application vendor community. > >> A pattern we see repeated over and over again is that a new control on >> some form of Internet crime leads to a dramatic short term reduction >> even though the control merely increases the cost of crime, not >> eliminates the capability. This is the displacement effect. The >> criminals attack weaker targets instead. Once the criminals have >> exhausted the supply of easy targets the original targets see a sudden >> increase in the crime rate, often orders of magnitude in a few days. > > Note that, given dynamically generated zones, signature generation > mechanisms of DNSSEC is rather weaker targets. > > Masataka Ohta > > -- -- New Website: http://hallambaker.com/ View Quantum of Stupid podcasts, Tuesday and Thursday each week, http://quantumofstupid.com/ _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf