Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service"

Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org> Fri, 22 May 2020 01:38 UTC

From: Paul Vixie <paul@redbarn.org>
To: dnsop WG <dnsop@ietf.org>, George Kuo <george@apnic.net>
Cc: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 01:38:12 +0000
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service"
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On Friday, 22 May 2020 00:55:34 UTC George Michaelson wrote:
> My Colleague George Kuo asked me for definitions of public DNS
> service. not "public DNS" but the trigram "public DNS service"
> 
> Colloquially we understand this reasonably well. It is in the space of
> what Google, quad9, CloudFlare and others do. The various clean DNS
> feeds people subscribe to, it is the functional role of a recursive,
> but to the public, yet somehow not the bad one of an open DNS resolver
> being abused to do DDoS: its the conscious service offering of a
> recursive/cache/forwarder in the public view, a declared intent.

these services aren't public in any way, and should not be described as 
public. they are operated privately for private purposes, and merely used by 
some members of the public.

a county park is public. anycast RDNS is a business.

-- 
Paul

Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" George Michaelson
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" Davey Song
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" George Michaelson
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" Joe Abley
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" Paul Vixie
[DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" George Michaelson
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" Andrew Campling
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" Tony Finch
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" Bill Woodcock
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" dagon
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" Paul Vixie
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" Bill Woodcock
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" Vittorio Bertola
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" Paul Vixie
Re: [DNSOP] definitions of "public DNS Service" George Michaelson