Re: [Add] meeting hum: should the IETF take up this work?

[Neil Cook <[e-mail]>]

Stephane,

> On 24 Jul 2019, at 17:59, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2019 at 11:45:07PM +0100,
> Jim Reid <[e-mail]> wrote 
> a message of 16 lines which said:
> 
>> And FWIW the success of DoH deployment -- for some definition of
>> success -- seems to rest solely in the hands of a very small number
>> of dominant players.
> 
> It depends on us. Or, rather, on it depends on a more general group,
> the group of people who write, install and manage DoH resolvers. The
> more they will be, the less users will depend on a few servers.
> 
> My hope is we will see many DoH resolvers (not always public).
> 

Running a public resolver takes a large amount of money and time, with no monetary reward for your efforts. Very few companies can afford to do that. Thus it seems far more likely that we’ll end up with a small number of dominant players as Jim suggests.

But let’s say I decide to run my own non-public DoH  resolver on my network at home. Firefox won’t have it on their list of TRRs, and if as you suggest, the discovery drafts are pointless and so don’t proceed, no application will ever find out about it, unless I configure it manually on every single application and computer in my house (not even mentioning those IoT devices that I can’t configure). 

It is also possible that we end up with a large number of public DoH resolvers which mine your personal data for profit. Given the current business model of the internet that is entirely possible. 

Neil

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