Re: [Doh] Request for the DOH WG to adopt draft-hoffman-resolver-associated-doh

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 03:39:45PM +0100,
 Vittorio Bertola <vittorio.bertola=[e-mail]> wrote 
 a message of 22 lines which said:

> they only make one choice, they pick an *ISP* that they decide to
> trust. They pay to get "Internet access" from that company and
> expect that company to provide all it takes for "the Internet to
> work", including DNS resolution, without them having to do anything;
> this has been the default situation for the last 20 years at least.

This is not how the Internet works. 20 years ago, may be this was true
but, today, users "trust" (not an informed trust) a lot of
intermediaries. For instance, if they use Android, a lot of choices
are made by Google, not by the ISP.

Which means that changes like DoH could be carried by other actors
than the user or the ISP. If people buy CPEs with a pre-configured DoH
client, they could use DoH even without a specific concern for privacy.

> So it's fine if smarter users make changes to this default and pick
> a DNS provider different from their connectivity provider, and it's
> fine to empower them to do so, but it's not fine to break the way
> the Internet normally works for most people, which includes an
> automated and effortless mechanism to get the DNS resolution service
> from the ISP when connecting to the network.

I don't understand this objection. Nobody suggested to deprecate DHCP
and its DNS resolver option.