On Friday, 22 May 2020 02:38 Paul Vixie <p...@redbarn.org> wrote: > > 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.
I agree with Paul that the use of "public" in this context is ambiguous in meaning. Instead of "public DNS service" I'd suggest that "cloud-based DNS service" is a better fit, no doubt others will have their views too. Andrew _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
