On 6/29/23, 1:11 PM, "John R Levine" <[email protected]> wrote:

If you're running 8.8.8.8 your logs have a whole lot of PII, but if you're
running resolvers in front of industrial networks and using PDNS to look
for malfunctioning or compromised IoT boxes, there's no PII at all.

Yes, but since the format doesn’t carry client IPs, it’s not very friendly for 
this IoT use case.  We could fix that!

> As it stands, I think this format is something of a privacy footgun.  It 
> looks reasonably deidentified, but in the DPRIVE threat model (see e.g. RFC 
> 7626) it is highly reidentifiable.

I completely agree that we need to document the security and privacy
issues and suggest ways both to understand what they are, and how to
mitigate them.  But if we imagine that we are smarter than the people who
use our specs, well, we aren't.

If the IETF says “deidentified DNS logs are basically anonymous” vs. 
“deidentified DNS logs are basically PII”, I believe that makes a big 
difference in the world.  Expert practitioners might already understand the 
nuance here, but our audience is broader than that.
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