Dear DPriv

On Thu, 5 Apr 2018, at 21:44, Brian Haberman wrote:
> Tim & I are still looking for feedback on this updated charter. Please> chime 
> in or we will have to close the WG down.

At first I was quite surprised to read this, especially in the current
climate, but on second thoughts despite all the recent press attention
regarding privacy, I don't think I've seen any mention of DNS.
I'd be extremely disappointed to see hear of the premature demise of
this WG. As we approach the fifth anniversary of the summer of Snowden,
I've the impression of a job half one, despite all the commendable
efforts of the IETF, this group, individuals like Stéphane and the
getdns team, etc, etc.
Solid stub to recursive and qnamemin standards have been established but
currently bind is the only performant DoT system and they've only
recently announced work on qname minimalisation. Privacy enabled public
recursives such as the very useful quad9.net service are still
relatively slow while the quicker ones from the good folks at Sinodun
suffer from a lack of clients, according to their published qps and
therefore can't be considered a viable solution whilst recursive to
authoritative remains unprotected.
I see a lot of effort going into outreach but it still still seems like
the general public and journalists have yet to catch on to the scale
and breadth of this DNS problem, while the engineering community may
have lost some of their initial momentum. This despite privacy becoming
a major public issue recently. So please just recharter the WG and
finish the job you started so well ! Please fix the recursive to
authoritative problem and look at alternatives to DoT, such as QUIC and
HTTPS before you go.
Many thanks :o)

Ian Maddison
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