Hi EKR,

> On 3 May 2025, at 3:20 am, Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If a DNS resolver starts inserting ads / phishing / etc. into responses 
>> using this mechanism, I suspect we'd see a couple of responses:
>> 
>> 1. Users *would* switch, because a) it's intrusive, b) if the UX folks do 
>> their job it's going to be obvious what's happening, and c) because it's 
>> likely browsers would only expose the information for resolvers that were 
>> explicitly configured (e.g., using encrypted DNS) -- which is evidence that 
>> the users who see it have the means to change because they've already made 
>> one configuration change.
> 
> Note that users may or may not have made a configuration change to get this
> result. For instance, the provider may be advertising one of the public 
> resolvers
> via DHCP: 
> 
> https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/isp

Not necessarily. As I alluded to above, in the discussions I've had with 
browser vendors there's a general sense that they'd only expose this 
information if it came from an explicitly configured resolver (e.g., DoH in the 
browser).


>> 2. Browsers / clients would hear about such abuse and (eventually) stop 
>> their software from displaying information from that resolver. 
>> 
> It seems like a lot of the questions about the utility of this draft and this 
> type
> of technique in general depend on the behavior of the browsers, but it doesn't
> seem like we've heard much from them in this IETF LC. Do we have public
> statements from any browser vendor about what they intend to implement
> here?

To be clear, most of the discussion here has been about my draft, which is 
*not* in IETF LC and is not even adopted.

To my knowledge browser vendors (and other potential consumers of the 
information) haven't been involved in draft-ietf-dnsop-structured-dns-error 
very much at all -- although I'd be happy to hear any corrections there. That 
was one of the reasons I suggested delaying the progression of this draft in my 
LC feedback.

Cheers,

--
Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/

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