New ZeroConf Spec

[Dan Kegel]

On 7/26/06, Travis Watkins <alleykat at gmail.com> wrote:
> It's a tradeoff: security (doesn't appear to be much of an issue) vs
> functionality. Do we want the features avahi gives? That's really what
> it comes down to.

You're right that it's a tradeoff.
You're wrong that security isn't much of an issue.
Since reasonable people are evidently disagreeing on this point,
it would be best to let the end user decide whether to
activate Avahi at all.    The easiest and safest way to do that
is to not install Avahi by default, but to let users know that
installing it will make networking transparant and easy,
both for humans and for malware.
- Dan