Re: [DNSOP] opportunistic semi-authoritative caching (Re: DNSOP Call for Adoption - draft-tale-dnsop-serve-stale)

Vladimír Čunát <vladimir.cunat+ietf@nic.cz> Mon, 11 September 2017 12:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] opportunistic semi-authoritative caching (Re: DNSOP Call for Adoption - draft-tale-dnsop-serve-stale)
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On 09/09/2017 09:22 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
> [...]
> the content owner may have good and specific reasons for the TTL they
> chose, and using that data for longer than that period may be harmful,
> and must be presumed to be harmful unless explicit signaling is added
> to let the content owner specify otherwise.

Requiring explicit signalling from authoritative servers, e.g. via EDNS,
might actually work in this case, as that side is also motivated to
implement and deploy support for stale-serving.  We would also avoid all
discussion around whether this needs to be on standards track and marked
as updating 1034+1035.

--Vladimir