>     Il 07/04/2020 18:22 Eric Orth <[email protected]> ha scritto:
> 
> 
>     "consistent application-level controls across the device"
> 
>     Right there is where followers of the misunderstanding will read this 
> text incorrectly.  Browsers and other non-malicious applications allowing 
> control does not guarantee consistent application control.
> 
Thanks, now I get the point. But it is in line with Sara's text, which starts 
with an "if": "If all of the applications used on a given device also provide a 
setting to use the system resolver, then the device can be reverted to a single 
point of control for all DNS queries." (I have no problems in replacing the 
movement verb "revert" with a static one). Of course DNS-based malware won't 
provide that setting, and it's fine to add a warning to the user that not all 
the applications will comply with the best practice that we are suggesting, 
though it's also implicit in the concept of a best practice.

The point that I'd like to have in the text is that it would be good if at 
least the well-intentioned applications empowered their users, so that those 
few smarter ones that really want to pick their resolver have a simple way to 
do so. Ideally, the OS would have a way to signal to all applications that the 
user explicitly wants a specific resolver, rather than whatever default is 
suggested by the application and/or by the network, so that applications pick 
up that preference without even requiring the user to manually configure each 
of them; the preference could even be for a deployment/discovery model rather 
than for a single specific resolver. Anyway, I'm fine with Sara's latest text 
proposals.

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