Re: [Doh] Are we missing an architecture? (was Re: DNS Camel thoughts: TC and message size)

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Sat, 09 June 2018 13:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Doh] Are we missing an architecture? (was Re: DNS Camel thoughts: TC and message size)
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Hi Andrew,

> On 8 Jun 2018, at 7:07 pm, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't have any trouble saying, "We are actually just going to insist
> on assuming a clean, modern architecture; things that make assumptions
> not justified by the letter of the RFCs -- including assumptions about
> transport -- are going to be broken."  But I think that's the sort of
> principle that really does need to be written down somewhere.  At the
> moment, the I-D is too cute about this:

"Cute" is a very loaded term.

>   The integration with HTTP provides a transport suitable for both
>   existing DNS clients and native web applications seeking access to
>   the DNS.
> 
> As several posters have already pointed out, this is only true if you
> accept a somewhat unusual meaning of "existing DNS clients".  Those
> clients are going to have assumptions in them, and they are
> assumptions that are based on more than 30 years of deployment -- an
> eternity on the Internet.
> 
> Architecture inheres not only in how the elements of the thing fit
> together, but also how the thing fits with everything else.  In this
> case, we have to fit with the deployed Internet systems.  It is
> perfectly fine to decide that 64k is not enough for anybody.  But if
> that's an assumption we're going to modify, then I think we are in
> fact specifying a new architecture for the DNS, and we need to be less
> glib about that.

Or we could just change "clients" to "client use cases," thereby removing the implication that it'll work when dropped in front of any existing client library (which isn't terribly interesting anyway, IMO).

DNS may very well need a new architecture, but loading this responsibility onto DOH post-WGLC is asking too much of it, and is unfair to the folks who brought this work to the IETF in good faith.

Cheers,

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Mark Nottingham   https://www.mnot.net/