please help me get over the feeling that this argument is founded on the
same logic as that used by folks who "know" I might want, no NEED that
extra bit of email in my inbox.  As I read it, it sounds like DNS Server
Spam being "PUSHED" to the Resolver who may or may not want the data.

Please advise.

/Wm

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 8:35 AM, Matthew Pounsett <m...@conundrum.com>
wrote:

>
> On 16 August 2016 at 08:57, Tim Wicinski <tjw.i...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>>
>> In Berlin we had two presentations on different methods of returning
>> multiple responses:
>>
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-wkumari-dnsop-multiple-responses/
>>
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bellis-dnsext-multi-qtypes/
>>
>> and a presentation in Buenos Aires:
>>
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vavrusa-dnsop-aaaa-for-free/
>>
>> All of these documents are attempting to solve a larger problem in
>> different ways.
>> The end result is "Return Associated Answer" to the client.
>>
>> The question is starting to coalesce around these two premises:
>>
>> - Do we want to Server to PUSH any or all Associated Answers, or
>>
>
>
> - Do we want the Client to PULL any or all Associated Answers, or
>>
>
> There are times when the server side of the communication will know what
> the client needs next, much the same as following a CNAME chain.  This
> might include records included automatically, such as returning the A/AAAA
> records from the RDATA of a SRV record.  It might also include records
> added by local policy, whether that's from configuration or learned by
> heuristics.  In the future that might include things like returning an HTTP
> SRV record for the apex (and associated address records) when a 'www' label
> is queried for.
>
> There's a fair bit of overlap between the use cases for push and pull, but
> I think more use cases are covered by push than pull.  It's possible that
> the use cases for pull are a subset of the use cases for push.  I haven't
> yet thought of any pull use cases that couldn't be covered by push.
>
> I think there's some flexibility to be gained from implementers having
> both tools available, but I think if we were to only pursue one it should
> be push.  I think the fears of providing a DDoS tool can be  assuaged by
> requiring the use of things like cookies, or session signalling as a
> prerequisite.
>
>
>>
>> - Do we want the Status Quo?
>>
>
> The status quo works ... but I believe there are things to be gained by
> moving forward.
>
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