> On 21 Aug 2019, at 19:21, Hollenbeck, Scott 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dns-privacy <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Vladimír
>> Cunát
>> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2019 8:58 AM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [dns-privacy] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-
>> dprive-rfc7626-bis
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I now read through the whole document, and I see one thing that might be a
>> little bit confusing - the beginning of page three reads like QNAME
>> minimization is not possible or at least never done, and contrary to
>> rfc7626 itself it isn't even mentioned in the whole document.  I would
>> suggest to at least reduce the strength of the wording ("always"), and/or
>> mention rfc7816.  I don't have much data at hand, but I believe that some
>> reduction of QNAMEs isn't as exotic as it used to be.
> 
> Agreed, and I'll suggest a sentence (enclosed by **) for the end of the third 
> paragraph of the Introduction:
> 
> "It is important, when analyzing the privacy issues, to remember that the 
> question asked to all these name servers is always the original question, not 
> a derived question.  The question sent to the root name servers is "What are 
> the AAAA records for www.example.com?", not "What are the name servers of 
> .com?".  By repeating the full question, instead of just the relevant part of 
> the question to the next in line, the DNS provides more information than 
> necessary to the name server. **In this simplified description, recursive 
> resolvers do not implement QNAME minimization as described in RFC 7816 
> [RFC7816], which will only send the relevant part of the question to the 
> upstream name server.**”

Thanks very much for this text. I’m wondering about also referencing this study:
https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wouter_de_vries/make-dns-a-bit-more-private-with-qname-minimisation
 
<https://labs.ripe.net/Members/wouter_de_vries/make-dns-a-bit-more-private-with-qname-minimisation>
which attempts to asses the deployment of QNAME minimisation to show it is 
actually being deployed in the wild? 

> 
> It may be more desirable to reference 7816bis, but that would add an 
> Internet-Draft reference dependency that folks might not want to add.

Good point. I’d prefer to just reference RFC7816 unless anyone objects…

Sara. 
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