Thanks Linkers for the interesting references.

Geoff Huston's blog is interesting, especially the suggestion (if I understand 
it correctly) that all DNS lookups in a web page might be done at its source 
and pushed with the content.  This would almost certainly reduce 'net traffic, 
and it would make the source responsible for address resolution except for the 
initial lookup.

But in other contexts DOH seems to me to be using HTTPS outside its design 
scope, and it collapses the old ISO 7-layer model.

On 14/01/2020 4:58 pm, Kim Holburn wrote:

Interference in DNS by governments and monitoring by ISPs set this off.  In our 
country, I would expect that it is part of the metadata that ISPs are supposed 
to store for government departments and possibly even local councils to peruse. 
 ISPs can also sell this data.

Even with some form of secure & encrypted DNS from clients to trusted servers, 
ISPs could still see each web-page URL with the host name replaced by its resolved 
address.  So the security agencies could still monitor an agent of interest, but 
selling users' browsing history would probably involve too much work to be 
worthwhile.

David L.
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