Re: [DNSOP] DNSOP Call for Adoption draft-vixie-dns-rpz

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Thu, 22 December 2016 15:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] DNSOP Call for Adoption draft-vixie-dns-rpz
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>Even shorter, RPZ might be a good tool, but definitely not something
>that the IETF should promote in any way without a big enough warning
>sign that there are dragons lying around.

Assuming we published such a warning, can you tell us whose behavior
that warning might change, how the behavior would change, and why?

I have to say I'm baffled at arguments that boil down to "someone
might do something bad with this, so we'll pretend it doesn't exist."
By that standard, we wouldn't have published DNS, TCP, or IP.

R's,
John

PS: I am reminded of the era of US prohibition when bottles of grape
juice and packets of yeast were sold with with a label WARNING: DO NOT
ADD YEAST TO JUICE AND PUT IN A WARM PLACE FOR SEVERAL DAYS BECAUSE AN
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE WILL RESULT.