On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM Mark Nottingham <m...@mnot.net> wrote:

> Hi EKR,
>
> > On 3 May 2025, at 3:20 am, Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote:
> >> If a DNS resolver starts inserting ads / phishing / etc. into responses
> using this mechanism, I suspect we'd see a couple of responses:
> >>
> >> 1. Users *would* switch, because a) it's intrusive, b) if the UX folks
> do their job it's going to be obvious what's happening, and c) because it's
> likely browsers would only expose the information for resolvers that were
> explicitly configured (e.g., using encrypted DNS) -- which is evidence that
> the users who see it have the means to change because they've already made
> one configuration change.
> >
> > Note that users may or may not have made a configuration change to get
> this
> > result. For instance, the provider may be advertising one of the public
> resolvers
> > via DHCP:
> >
> > https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/isp
>
> Not necessarily. As I alluded to above, in the discussions I've had with
> browser vendors there's a general sense that they'd only expose this
> information if it came from an explicitly configured resolver (e.g., DoH in
> the browser).
>

Sure. I just meant that using encrypted DNS does not mean that a resolver
was explicitly configured.

-Ekr


> >> 2. Browsers / clients would hear about such abuse and (eventually) stop
> their software from displaying information from that resolver.
> >>
> > It seems like a lot of the questions about the utility of this draft and
> this type
> > of technique in general depend on the behavior of the browsers, but it
> doesn't
> > seem like we've heard much from them in this IETF LC. Do we have public
> > statements from any browser vendor about what they intend to implement
> > here?
>
> To be clear, most of the discussion here has been about my draft, which is
> *not* in IETF LC and is not even adopted.
>
> To my knowledge browser vendors (and other potential consumers of the
> information) haven't been involved in draft-ietf-dnsop-structured-dns-error
> very much at all -- although I'd be happy to hear any corrections there.
> That was one of the reasons I suggested delaying the progression of this
> draft in my LC feedback.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/
>
>
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