Warren Kumari <[email protected]> writes:

> Dear DPRIVE WG,
>
> The authors of draft-ietf-dprive-dns-over-tls-01 have indicated that
> they believe that the document is ready, and have asked for Working
> Group Last Call.

Hi.  I believe the document is in relatively good shape.  I have one
high level concern, and one concern with the document itself that is
related to the higher-level concern:

1) I believe it would be a mistake to publish this without synchronizing
the TLS-related aspects of DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-DTLS.  The
documents solve roughly the same problem, with rougly the same
technology.  One important difference is how they approach
authentication of the peer in TLS.  Given the similarities of the
protocols and solutions, this seems like a recipe for implementation
frustration.  An implementer would prefer to implement DNS-over-TLS/DTLS
as similar as possible.  Having different X.509 (etc) certificate
verification code paths depending on whether TLS or DTLS is used appears
bad to me.

2) On TLS verification, this document should reference RFC 6125 and
describe how naming information should be compared with the locally
known data with what is being presented by the server.  See
draft-ietf-dprive-dnsodtls for one way (not necessarily the best one or
the most readable or complete way) of doing this.

If merging DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-DTLS is not an option, another
possibility is that TLS-related aspects are deferred from both documents
to another third new document that describe how to perform TLS
credential verification for DNS-over-(D)TLS in a generalized way.  Then
there would be harmony in the TLS-related aspects, and the respective
document can focus on the DNS-related aspects.  If document editor
cycles is limiting factor, I would volunteer to help write this.

/Simon

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