Re: [DNSOP] extension of DoH to authoritative servers

[Joe Abley <[e-mail]>]

On 12 Feb 2019, at 12:22, Paul Wouters <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On Tue, 12 Feb 2019, Paul Vixie wrote:
> 
>> this is especially vital for IoT, whose makers will never be profitable other than from data they collect.
> 
> I hope those makes will be unprofitable and close shop.
> 
> IoT devices should be designed to be accessed through secure VPN or TLS
> connections, without going through vulnerable large scale server farms
> in unknown or unpleasant countries invading my human privacy rights.
> 
> For example, I'm using my hue lights with or without VPN, without telling
> Philips when I turn the lights on or off and without telling philips
> when I am near or not near by house.

As an aside, it looks to me like Philips are making Hue viable with a price point that makes them invisible to the average consumer. The Internet is awash with smart lights with apparently equivalent functionality and a price point that is 90% lower. Either Philips have the biggest margin on consumer electronics the world has ever seen, or the manufacturers of the cheap alternatives are getting paid in ways other than money.

In terms of volume (which is what we care about if we are worried about numbers of active devices) Hue is a rounding error.


Joe