Conflicting Information

I'm a Information Security Analyst and currently I'm trying to strengthen our ColdFusion hardening standards and I have an issue that I need to understand.
I'm referencing two separate Adobe documents,
First document:
ColdFusion 9 Lockdown Guide
Recommends:
Page 16 of 35. Do not enable RDS. Click next...
Next document:
Security Advisory for ColdFusion
Release date: January 4, 2013
Last updated: January 16, 2013
Vulnerability identifier: APSA13-01
Recommends:
Setting the password for Remote Development Services (even if RDS is disabled)
Enabling password protection for RDS
Setting the Admin password and enabling password protection for Administrator
So, Adobe recommends, 1st, not to Enable RDS at all, but then recommends as a "mitigation", Enabling RDS (post installation) to setup a username and password, but the ColdFusion 9 Lockdown Guide "Do not enable RDS.".
Maybe as a "Remediation", Adobe should just remove RDS since a) they recommend keeping it disabled and b) it's such a vulnerability? Also, I would suggest that the recommendations from the Security Advisory (s) be incorporated into an updated ColdFusion 9 Lockdown Guide.
I'm sure this cannot be the first time they've heard this.
Don

It doesn't say to "Enable RDS", it says "Enable password protection for RDS"
You can disable the RDS by commenting out the servlet mapping in web.xml, but you should still set passwords for RDS on the chance that it ever gets enabled on the server (someone restores the wrong XMl files or something). It is best to enable separate RDS usernames and passwords for this.
You should still keep RDS disabled in production, but this is an example of defense-in-depth. Even if RDS were to become enabled, it would alteast be password protected. These documents do not contradict each other.
Disabling RDS: http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/disabling-enabling-coldfusion-rds-production.html
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