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Re: [hrpc] "Paul Vixie and Peter Lowe on Why DoH is Politically Motivated"

Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> Mon, 15 November 2021 12:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hrpc] "Paul Vixie and Peter Lowe on Why DoH is Politically Motivated"
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> On Nov 15, 2021, at 1:17 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
> 
> It's funny (no, actually, it's sad) that some people, in 2021, still
> use "political" as an insult and criticizes a protocol as being
> "political" (specially in the fields of security and privacy where
> things are even more political than the average network protocol).

Well, I agree that the word “political” is not a useful one in this context.

But in reading what they said, I don’t find much else to disagree with…  DoH is a black mark on the reputation of the IETF, and its adoption as a standard was a sad day for privacy.

                                -Bill

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