October 27, 2005 Anti-Spyware Coalition Summary of comments and …

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October 27, 2005
Anti-Spyware Coalition Summary
of comments and ASC response on the
July 11, 2005 Public Comment Draft of the
ASC Definitions and Supporting Documents
Summary
In the four weeks since the Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC) released the public draft of its
Definitions and Supporting Documents, ASC received almost 400 comments.
As we document in this report, ASC also made many changes based on specific issues
raised in the comments. We are grateful to the hundreds of individuals, organizations and
companies that engaged in this process.
ASC did not view the comments as a vote or a popularity contest. We were strictly
interested in substantive comments. However, it is important to that an almost equal
number of comments were concerned that the definitions were too vague (and therefore
not as helpful as they could be to software companies trying to do the right thing) as
those who thought they were too specific (and therefore too helpful to spyware
companies). In general, ASC was reassured by the comments that the documents were
useful to moving forward in a process to help anti-spyware companies communicate
better amongst themselves and with consumers.
Many of the comments implied…