Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service"

[George Michaelson <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, May 25, 2020 at 7:06 PM Vittorio Bertola
<vittorio.bertola=[e-mail]> wrote:
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> If you wanted to convey the nuance that it's not just open, but open on purpose and meant to attract users from the entire Internet, you could add "global": "open global resolver".
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> Or, as an alternative, you could use the term "platform", which is increasingly being used to identify Internet-wide global companies that provide multiple consumer services. "Platform resolver" would also convey the idea that these resolvers are going to be distributed and ubiquitously available. "Cloud resolver" could have a similar meaning.
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> But, as for any terminological bikeshedding effort, you cannot force others to use the "most correct" term, so it's possibly just a waste of time.

You make a useful important point here: an "open resolver" is the
superset of "deliberate" and "abused" ones. The concept here is that
the intent is deliberate, we need some way to say so. if the intent is
not there and is being abused we need some way to say so.

I started typing this as "good" and "bad" but we know not everyone
believes open public resolver services deliberately deployed ARE a
public good, all the time.

So I went to deliberate and abused, because there is "I do this by
intent" and "it is being done by accident"

-G