On Mon, Mar 02, 2015 at 12:16:37PM -0500,
 John <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 181 lines which said:

> My first comment is why are you doing this? Is there a real problem
> here or are we in knee jerk mode?

Well, we were simply bored and with nothing better to do. 

> I liken the DNS system to the phone book. Just because I open the
> phone book at a particular page does not mean that I am going to
> call any of the numbers on that page.

_You_ may regard it this way but it is irrelevant. As shown by the
MORECOWBELL program, other people feel differently and find the DNS an
useful tool for surveillance. (I also agree with Hallam-Baker's
remarks.)

> In the draft, the example of Alcoholics Anonymous is used. Making a
> DNS inquiry about AA does not necessarily mean that I will visit the
> AA site. Even if I do, my interest may be no more than idle
> curiosity, or I may be looking for information for me for others.

Doesn't matter what _you_ think. If someone searches in Google "how to
join jihad in Syria", he may thinks this is innocent but people who
tap Google requests may disagree.

> a WEB page which may (probably will) have third party
> advertising. In order to render the page, including the
> advertisements, all sorts of data may be needed, which will result
> in many DNS inquiries,

This is well-known and is detailed in
draft-ietf-dprive-problem-statement-01, section 1 (secondary and
tertiary requests).

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