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Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-livingood-dns-redirect-00

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Mon, 13 July 2009 19:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Review of draft-livingood-dns-redirect-00
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At 1:48 PM -0400 7/13/09, Paul Wouters wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Tony Finch wrote:
>
>>I think you need to widen that caveat: anything that isn't a web browser
>>should not use a DNS server that misbehaves as described in this draft.
>
>I think you need to widen that caveat: anything should not use a DNS server
>that misbehaves as described in this draft.

Paul: that's over the top. Some of the services defined in the draft are highly desired by some Internet users. You may not like them, and that's fine. Your statement is akin to, and as useful as, the "NATs are bad so we shouldn't talk about them" debate that flares in the IETF approximately biannually.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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