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

Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com> Tue, 23 July 2019 22:25 UTC

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> On 23 Jul 2019, at 23:09, Rob Sayre <sayrer@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Mozilla's presentation accurately stated that DNS is no longer an effective control surface.

That statement will come as news to those in the multi-million (billion?) dollar business of using DNS to protect against malware, phishing, spam, botnets and so on. Like this:
https://www.nominet.uk/cyber-defence-invisible-but-pivotal

I quote from that article "our PDNS service has blocked over 30 million attempts by public sector organisations to access malicious domains since the service began. On average, the PDNS blocks over 10,000 malicious domains every month.". IMO those numbers meet any reasonable definition of effective.

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