Thanks for the review!

On Sep 7, 2023, at 7:16 AM, Bron Gondwana via Datatracker <nore...@ietf.org> 
wrote:

> My only concern is that it does fall back very easily to cleartext, for a long
> damping period.  As a protocol implementer myself, I would generally expect to
> retry something one or two more times over the course of a few minutes before
> giving up entirely for 24h, since the server at the other end may have just
> been restarting and either dropped an existing connection or rejected a SYN
> packet, but be ready a moment later.  I'd be happy with a limit of something
> like 5 tries over 2 minutes (one every 30 seconds) before giving up.

In Section 4.3, the "damping" parameter has a "suggested default" of 1 day. 
That's a suggestion, not at all a requirement. It was established based on the 
idea that almost every domain name has multiple nameservers, and that it is 
likely that if one server has a failure such as a timeout, the resolver will 
try the other nameservers (which may or may not be encrypting).

Are you proposing a shorter value for "damping", or a note saying "1 day is 
just the suggested value, you might choose a shorter one if you want"? Or 
something else?

--Paul Hoffman

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