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

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Wed, 21 December 2016 17:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] DNSOP Call for Adoption draft-vixie-dns-rpz
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Practically speaking, none of these changes are _required_.   The worse case scenario is that if someone looks up a malicious domain, you get back a bogus answer that doesn’t validate.   The resolver reports "no answer" because an answer that doesn’t validate is no answer.   The user sees that the page fails to load.   There is little they can do to bypass this, and they aren’t likely to have a sense of how to do it, so our job is pretty much done.

It would be _nice_ if the browser, for example, could get some kind of positive, signed assertion that some authority has claimed that the domain in question is malicious (or whatever).   This would be good mostly for the purpose of transparency, so it’s not clear that it makes any difference if it’s communicated to the user: people who care about transparency will be able to look it up, and, in particular, people who are interested in watching for censorship will have no problem at all noticing that it is happening.