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> From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@icann.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 2, 2023 1:48 PM
> To: Hollenbeck, Scott <shollenb...@verisign.com>
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> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [dns-privacy] [Ext] Intended Status for draft-ietf-
> dprive-unilateral-probing
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> On Mar 2, 2023, at 10:11 AM, Hollenbeck, Scott
> <shollenbeck=40verisign....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Paul Hoffman <paul.hoff...@icann.org>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 1, 2023 2:51 PM
> >> To: Hollenbeck, Scott <shollenb...@verisign.com>
> >> Cc: dpr...@ietf.org
> >> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [Ext] [dns-privacy] Intended Status for
> > draft-ietf-
> >> dprive-unilateral-probing
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> >> On Mar 1, 2023, at 10:46 AM, Hollenbeck, Scott
> >> <shollenbeck=40verisign....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> >>> After a recent-re-read of draft-ietf-dprive-unilateral-probing and
> >>> its
> >> normative dependencies, I have a strong belief that the draft
> >> describes
> > more of
> >> an experiment than a Proposed Standard.
> >>
> >> All protocols before they are deployed are experiments.
> >>
> >>> The reason we need "opportunistic" and "unilateral" actions is
> >>> because
> > there
> >> are gaps in specification, implementation, and deployment of services
> >> for recursive-authoritative encryption.
> >>
> >> That is not what the WG decided. It decided that opportunistic was
> > sufficient for
> >> some threat models. Other threat models have the gaps you discuss.
> >
> > [SAH] WG decisions aren't immutable. I posted this as a proposal for
> > reconsideration.
> >
> >>> Experimental status worked for QNAME minimization.
> >>
> >> That's irrelevant.
> >>
> >>> It can work here, too.
> >>
> >> So could Informational; that is also irrelevant.
> >
> > [SAH] It's hardly irrelevant given the successful approach taken with
> > QNAME minimization. It's a valid example of how Experimental status could
> work.
>
> The experimental status of the original QNAME minimisation document was
> due to there being protocol options that the WG thought could not be chosen
> between without data from deployments. That is not the case with draft-ietf-
> dprive-unilateral-probing. In fact, the opposite is the case: because the 
> probing
> is unilateral, the resolver gets to make its own choices about what is working
> and what is not. That's the whole point of the decision ladders in the 
> document.

[SAH] Perhaps, but this is what the working group's charter says about this 
topic:

"Investigate potential solutions for adding confidentiality to DNS exchanges 
involving authoritative servers (Experimental)."

Experimental. Not Proposed Standard.

Scott

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