On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 2:37 PM Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Hiya,
>
> On 15/02/2021 22:31, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > This doesn't sound like a very good idea to me. IMO we should only
> specify
> > a protocol that authenticates the server.
>
> Fair enough that that's your preference. How's that gonna
> work and be deployable though?
>

The reason we have WGs is to work out such matters in detail, no? And in
particular, I think the WG should try to figure out the problem space
before designing.

However, it seems like there's a relatively obvious strawman proposal here:

- We invent some mechanism that allows you to specify in an NS record that
the server takes TLS (as a hacky example, "servers have to be named
<some-sentinel>.example.com").
- Servers are authenticated via the WebPKI, with the name as listed above.

I'm sure there are plenty of things that people won't like about this
(e.g., I imagine that some people would like to use DNSSEC), and the signal
I just invented is gross. Maybe in the process of deciding what people
don't like about this, we can understand the problem space better.

-Ekr
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