On 10/23/15, 1:35 PM, "Simon Josefsson" <[email protected]> wrote:

>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.

Fully agree on all counts. If the WG wants to move both -TLS and -DTLS to
the IETF, it makes no sense at all to have them have different crypto
properties. I don't care if the answer is "harmonize each before
finishing" or "harmonize them by reference to a third document".

--Paul Hoffman

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