On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 7:50 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Thu 2014-10-23 08:45:45 -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Which in my view means that the recursive has to be a trusted service and
> > the notion of promiscuous recursive resolver use has to be stamped out.
>
> I'm not convinced that your conclusion follows from your premise here,
> Phil.
>
> I agree with your premise that a recursive resolver needs to be a
> trusted service.
>
> But i don't see why a trusted recursive resolver can't be "promiscuous"
> (though it's possible that i'm not understanding the term in the way you
> mean it).
>
> For example, anonymity-friendly service provider nologs.example might
> offer a recursive resolver for anyone who wants to use it, while
> identifying themselves to the public with cryptographically-strong
> credentials.
>

I am all for the service user being anonymous. I do not want to use an
anonymous service though.

What I mean by promiscuous is using the service that happens to be
advertised in DHCP for anything other than bootstrapping and that only when
absolutely necessary.


> The trust relationship for a recursive resolver is directional, not
> symmetric.
>

The resolver is trusted by the client. Ergo it must be chosen and it must
be trustworthy.
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