Re: [DNSOP] opportunistic semi-authoritative caching (Re: DNSOP Call for Adoption - draft-tale-dnsop-serve-stale)

[Paul Vixie <[e-mail]>]

Evan Hunt wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 09, 2017 at 08:29:28AM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote:
>> rpz is a defense. it assumes that the content owner is trying to hurt
>> me. it is therefore one step away from being an attack, and is in any
>> case, not an attack.
>
> Sure.  And TTL stretching assumes the content owner is a fellow victim,
> and someone is trying to hurt both of us by making their site inaccessible
> to me.  Both are lies; both have a defensible moral justification.

the content owner may have good and specific reasons for the TTL they 
chose, and using that data for longer than that period may be harmful, 
and must be presumed to be harmful unless explicit signaling is added to 
let the content owner specify otherwise.

autonomous, coherent, reliable, distributed: pick four.

-- 
P Vixie