On May 8, 2026, at 10:18 AM, Mukund Sivaraman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 09, 2026 at 12:44:38AM +0800, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
>> On Sat, May 09, 2026 at 12:32:14AM +0800, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:
>>> A DNS message is not the appropriate place for this kind of
>>> localization. Space is at a premium (64kB is all there is for the whole
>>> message). India has 22 official languages for example, and it would be
>>> absurd to have as many translations encoded in an EDNS option.
>>> 
>>> The objective should be that the language used in the justification text
>>> and organization name is indicated, which it appears the draft provides
>>> for.
>> 
>> Having said this, I realise that the structured-dns-errors draft only
>> returns the JSON for empty answers (where filtering/blocking/censoring)
>> has occurred. So there ought to be space in the 64kB in these cases.
>> 
>> However, this localization still seems like it doesn't belong a DNS
>> response.
> 
> Perhaps a client can indicate its locale in an EDNS option in the query,
> and the server responds with a single localized set of fields matching
> what the client requested, or if that is not available, whatever
> language the server has.

This would add another fingerprinting vector (undesirable) and could be used to 
influence filtering (probably undesirable?).

-d

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