Good feedback, which I will take into consideration for our ­01 revision.
Please do note that Section 10 is definitely immature, as we noted in the
Open Issues (#5) in Appendix B.  We¹ll be developing this section quite a
bit.

Thanks
Jason


On 7/13/09 4:12 AM, "Roy Arends" <r...@dnss.ec> wrote:

> On Jul 9, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Livingood, Jason wrote:
> 
>> > I submitted this draft, which you can find at
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-livingood-dns-redirect-00
>> > , before the ­00 cutoff on Monday, and it will be discussed in the
>> > DNSOP WG meeting at IETF 75 (it is listed on the agenda).
>> >
>> > If anyone is interested and has time before IETF 75, I¹m happy to
>> > take feedback before then obviously.  Please note that there is a
>> > list of open items at the end, which we plan to address in
>> > subsequent versions.
> 
> This part of section 10 is troublesome:
> 
>      So the only case where DNS security extensions cause problems for
> DNS Redirect is with a validating stub resolver. This case doesn't
> have widespread deployment now and could be mitigated by using trust
> anchor, configured by the applicable ISP or DNS ASP, that could be
> used to sign the redirected answers.
> 
> This mitigation strategy just doesn't work, and for a very good
> reason, as it allows a downgrade attack.
> 
> As for the rest of the document, I think it overloads the term
> "redirection" by incorporating lawfully mandated filtering (whatever
> that means), and therefor wrongly justifying this practice altogether.
> 
> In general, this kind of muddling with the DNS protocol assumes that
> the sole purpose of the DNS is to allow a web-browser find the address
> of a web-server. Clearly it is not.
> 
> There are alternatives. I run unbound from my laptop. Windows users
> can do too: http://unbound.net/downloads/unbound_setup_1.3.1.exe
> 
> Other alternatives are OARC's ODVR:
> https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/odvr
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Roy Arends
> 

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