On Friday, 22 May 2020 00:55:34 UTC George Michaelson wrote: > 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.
these services aren't public in any way, and should not be described as public. they are operated privately for private purposes, and merely used by some members of the public. a county park is public. anycast RDNS is a business. -- Paul _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
