The polemic Ayn Rand once wrote:

"If there is any one way of confess one's own mediocrity, it is the willingness to place one's work in the absolute power of a group, particularly a group of one's professional colleagues. Of any form tyranny, this is the worst: it is directed against a single human attribute: the mind – and against a single enemy the innovator. The innovator, by definition, is the man who challenges the established practices of his profession. To grant a professional monopoly to any group, is to sacrifice human ability and abolish progress; to advocate such a monopoly, is to confess that one has nothing to sacrifice."

Those who want PCI DSS to be more prescriptive should reflect about what they want.

The same applies for those who think PCI DSS is fine as it is.

More about Rand's words soon.