My Colleague George Kuo asked me for definitions of public DNS service. not "public DNS" but the trigram "public DNS service"
Colloquially we understand this reasonably well. It is in the space of what Google, quad9, CloudFlare and others do. The various clean DNS feeds people subscribe to, it is the functional role of a recursive, but to the public, yet somehow not the bad one of an open DNS resolver being abused to do DDoS: its the conscious service offering of a recursive/cache/forwarder in the public view, a declared intent. A Google search lists (some of) them by name and IP. I asked "Dr Johnson" (Paul Hoffman) why it was not in his dictionary, and he said he is but the humble scribe, and words appear in the dictionary when he is directed. What does the WG feel? The definitions of the "elements" of a public DNS service are of course defined. But not (I feel) the "collected whole" which most definitely exists, out there. (if anyone feels this is adequately defined, please correct me and share a URL) -George _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
