As highly insightful as always, Geoff - thanks! On 17.12.2021 02:43, Geoff Huston wrote: > > >> On 16 Dec 2021, at 7:07 pm, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzme...@nic.fr> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 08:59:42AM +0100, >> Moritz Müller via dns-wg <dns-wg@ripe.net> wrote >> a message of 179 lines which said: >> >>> I was wondering: Why does the EC believe that the resolvers users >>> currently rely on (e.g. provided by their ISP) provide >>> “low-quality”? Are there any studies about this? >> >> One possible response is that the people who write these statements >> don't know what they are talking about. But of course, I cannot >> believe that. So, another possible response: in Brussels, they see >> that some users move away from the IAP resolver to a public resolver, >> so there is probably a reason for that. (Unfortunately, DNS4EU may not >> address this reason.) >> > > DNS resolutiuon is, economically speaking, a wasteland - users don't pay for > queries so > the infrastructure that handles queries is bundled up with other services, > which > is what your ISP does. But users don't generally decide on an IUSP based on > the > quality of that ISP’s DNS so the DNS department is part of the cost part of > the > business, not a revenue generator, so it gets little attention. Some ISPs have > attempted to change this by monetising queries (selling the query logs) or > changing responses (NXDOMAIN substitution) but such efforts has been generally > regarded with extreme disfavor. So the DNS resolution environment limps along. > > [...]
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