Re: [Doh] Goals of DOH

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Apr 23, 2018, at 6:06 PM, Paul Hoffman <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Can you point to the part of the draft (which is in WG Last Call) where it says that? If so, I promise to fix it because that is not an intended goal.

From the WG Charter:

The primary focus of this working group is to develop a mechanism that
provides confidentiality and connectivity between DNS clients (e.g., operating
system stub resolvers) and recursive resolvers. 

From the document's introduction:

   Two primary uses cases were considered during this protocol's
   development.  They included preventing on-path devices from
   interfering with DNS operations and allowing web applications to
   access DNS information via existing browser APIs in a safe way
   consistent with Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) [CORS].  There
   are certainly other uses for this work.

The first of these two use cases is to subvert the intentions of the network operator. Providing confidentiality and connectivity is as well.   Of course, a less provoking way of saying what I said might be "to prevent abuse by network operators," but it's kind of a toss-up.

Anyway, if you think this is not the goal of the document, there may be some kind of communication problem here to resolve... :)