Re: [dbound] Related Domains By DNS (RDBD) Draft

[Samuel Weiler <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019, Stephen Farrell wrote:

>>> Accordingly, I’d like to see an example or two of how you’d expect an
>>> application to use the kind of connection between domains established
>>> by the RDBD mechanism.
...
> We added some text on that in -01, in the intro. See the top
> of page 3. Wasn't that clear enough?

No, it is not.  Those are pretty broad use cases.  I want to see them 
more specifically defined.  e.g.  "correlate the ownership of websites 
in different languages" is still pretty broad.  WHO do you want to do 
the correlation?  (Which pieces of code?)  Is this for statistics and 
analysis (only) - e.g. so the Alexa list reflects the aggregate of 
correlated sites?  Or do you want client code doing something?  Do you 
want cookies shared?  Credentials?  I realize that this could touch 
many parts of the stack.

Put another way, if you're right that:

> ... part of the reason DBOUND failed was an
> attempt to be all things to all parties. I think repeating
> such an attempt with RDBD would lead to the same failure.

Then the use case(s) needs to be very clear.

-- Sam