Re: [Add] What to do in this potential working group

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Thu, 22 August 2019 06:44 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 07:43:50 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Add] What to do in this potential working group
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On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 7:26 PM Brian Dickson <brian.peter.dickson@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 1:15 PM Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 6:05 PM Ray Bellis <ray@bellis.me.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Or Mozilla could embrace DNSSEC and DoT thereby encouraging their
>>> deployment for the benefit of all internet users...
>>>
>>
>> I feel like everything meaningful to be said about DNSSEC has already
>> been said, so I'll spare people that.
>>
>
> Actually, there is one thing you could say about DNSSEC that would help
> clarify Mozilla's position.
>
> Basically, without doing validation, a stub resolver can be categorized
> two different ways:
>
>    - security-unaware stub resolver
>    - security-aware non-validating stub resolver
>
> I think it would be helpful if Mozilla were to state which kind of stub
> resolver it will be implementing (security-unaware or security-aware).
>

Are these defined somewhere? If so, can you send a pointer?

-Ekr



> In either case, a validating resolver will return RCODE=2 if validation
> fails, so I think it doesn't have any practical impact.
>
> Brian
>