On Sun, Jul 06, 2025 at 11:29:50AM -0500, Tommy Jensen wrote:
This draft is short and to the point: it's time to stop accommodating Classic DNS over UDP when writing new protocols that can use encrypted DNS or Classic DNS over TCP instead.
Dear colleagues, I don't understand why the draft is not, "Stop using the DNS for stuff." The reason people prefer UDP to TCP is, in part, burden on the client side. State is expensive to keep, and the more extreme your power requirements &c. the more likely you are not to want to keep the state necessary for TCP. The problem is that the DNS is already there and you can put data in it, and the more distributed your operation the more likely it is that an eventually-consistent low-query-cost database is the sort of thing you want. Like it or not, trying to stop that or channel it by inisting on new datatypes (I'm looking at you, SPF) has so far a total failure unless there is some benefit in it to others. I don't really see how a new set of directives to others about how they ought to design their protocols is likely to result in any change of behaviour on the part of others. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected] _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
