Gerv said.. > There seems to be a lot of confusion in this thread between correlation > and causation. > > While avoiding discussing what the prices actually are, I would note > that unless there is no price advantage either way, the distribution of > certificates among different term lengths is likely to be a function of > price as well as anything else. So it's not reasonable necessarily to > conclude that customers "prefer" or "need" _longer_ certs; they might > just "prefer" _cheaper_ certs :-) > We are not trying to prove a prepositional logic problem. We are discussing the real world. Your careful wording suggests to me that you already appreciate that there are multiple factors at play.
> In other words, you can't reason from e.g. "customers buy 3-year certs" > to "customers need/prefer 3-year certs" unless there is no price > advantage in the system you are studying. > One can reason that it is very likely to be a factor, and I would argue a strong one. You cannot use the fact that a bulk buy attracts a discount, coupled with an inference drawn from the aether that all customers are motivated solely by price, to unequivocally deny that the popularity of 2 or 3 year certificates suggests that there is a demand for certificates valid for > 13 months. Besides that, for some customers who buy from us in bulk volume the price per year is exactly the same whether they get a 1 year certificate or a 3 year certificate. They still find 3 year certificates attractive. Regards Robin Alden Comodo _______________________________________________ Public mailing list [email protected] https://cabforum.org/mailman/listinfo/public
