Re: [Doh] New Privacy Considerations Section Proposal

Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com> Thu, 21 June 2018 11:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Doh] New Privacy Considerations Section Proposal
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Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, Howard Chu wrote:
> 
>> that particular DNS/DoH server is unlikely to be serving any interesting web 
>> pages for any clients. As such, the frequency of intermingled connections 
>> should be low-to-zero.
> 
> That's a rather pessimistic view of the DoH future.

It's a realistic view of devices coming preconfigured to use e.g. Google's DNS 
servers.

> I think it is likely that some DoH server operators will be companies with 
> distributed presence so that they can offer proximity to users; CDNs and the 
> likes. CDNs also host web sites. They should thus be perfect candidates for 
> serving both web content and DoH requests over the same connections. 
> Especially in combination with the ORIGIN frame etc.

Those companies may indeed arise, but the vast majority of users will never 
change their default DNS settings to point to them.

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