On 20.7.2017 17:00, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 06:20:56PM +0530,
>  Mukund Sivaraman <[email protected]> wrote 
>  a message of 27 lines which said:
> 
>> It is to put draft-ietf-dnsop-nsec-aggressiveuse to use with unsigned
>> zones.
> 
> That's quite funny. During the development of RFC 8020
> (draft-ietf-dnsop-nxdomain-cut), which addresses the same concern as
> draft-ietf-dnsop-nsec-aggressiveuse, many people said that the feature
> was dangerous, and we should mandate the use of DNSSEC. In the end, it
> is not mandatory (see sections 2, 3rd para, and section 7 of RFC
> 8020).

It is worth noting that implementation in Unbound enables this only for
DNSSEC-signed zones to avoid problems with broken CDNs.

In other words, DNSSEC is used as indicator "we can do DNS properly".
That sounds reasonable to me.

Petr Špaček  @  CZ.NIC


> draft-ietf-dnsop-nsec-aggressiveuse is more aggressive (because it can
> now synthetizes answers) so it seems to me the same reasons should
> apply?

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