Re: [DNSOP] solving a problem by creating a worse problem, ALT-TLD and (insecure) delgations.

Suzanne Woolf <suzworldwide@gmail.com> Fri, 10 February 2017 18:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] solving a problem by creating a worse problem, ALT-TLD and (insecure) delgations.
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Hi,

The editors hold the token on text for this, but it seems to me that the discussion has started going in circles.

A number of arguments have been made, and in some cases repeated. Let’s assume the editors have heard them and try to restrict followups to new observations, questions, or arguments.

> On Feb 10, 2017, at 1:25 PM, John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> wrote:
> 
>> This is part of why I don't want to extend alt this way, and the more
>> I think about it the less desirable it seems to me.  We have a
>> particular problem: non-DNS-protocol switching for applications that
>> want to use a DNS-compatible domain name slot (see RFC 5890).
> 
> Agreed.  Say that you can do anything you want with .ALT (duh) but you
> SHOULD NOT resolve .ALT names via the DNS protocol because of the
> DNSSEC problems.  To minimize leakage, we can use the tools we already
> have: qname minimization, local mirrors of the root, and special
> casing in DNS caches as many now do for .onion.

This sounds reasonable to me.


Suzanne