Re: [Doh] panel discussion on DoH/DoC

Jim Reid <jim@rfc1035.com> Mon, 11 February 2019 17:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Doh] panel discussion on DoH/DoC
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On 11 Feb 2019, at 17:18, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 3:40 AM Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
>> 
>> I agree that picking one like that is no worse and likely better than
>> round robin or similar, when considering how the DoH servers can affect
>> the browser user's privacy in "normal" scenarios. I'd guess that the
>> censorship scenario might call for something else though, esp if the
>> selected DoH server becomes unresponsive. Be interested if you've
>> thoughts on that. (Not sure myself what browser behaviours might be
>> best in such failure cases.)
> 
> Well, as I said, we haven't really sorted this out. But it's also kind of out of scope for this WG.

Hmmm. Wouldn't the WG’s charter commitments on privacy and security apply to this topic?

Picking your favourite DoH service/server would probably be out of scope for the WG. However I think the privacy and security considerations that should be part of that selection decision would be in scope for the WG.