Re: [DNSOP] draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc7816bis: hopefully ready for WG Last Call

Ralph Dolmans <ralph@nlnetlabs.nl> Fri, 23 October 2020 10:25 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc7816bis: hopefully ready for WG Last Call
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On 23-10-2020 00:12, Tony Finch wrote:
> Ralph Dolmans <ralph@nlnetlabs.nl> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback, appreciated!
> 
> Thanks for the response!
> 
> I thought of another thing:
> 
> Some of the points in section 5 (on limiting the number of queries and the
> performance downsides) should be discussed in section 7 (security
> considerations). In particular QNAME minimization can amplify query volume
> so it can be abused to make random subdomain attacks worse, though that
> can be mitigated by RFC 8020 NXDOMAIN.

Mentioning it in the security considerations makes sense. Note that
RFC8020 won't help you here when the answer is synthesized using a
wildcard, which is also why the example in section 5 has a wildcard
record. Happy to make this more explicit in the text.

Thanks,
Ralph