Re: Comcast files "recommended practices" draft RFC with IETF for DNS Redirection

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat net>
Date: July 9, 2009 9:25:37 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net, "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Comcast files "recommended practices" draft RFC with  
IETF for DNS Redirection

> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-livingood-dns-redirect-00
>
> I note that this draft RFC proposes practices that routinely return  
> *valid* responses to erroneous DNS lookups, and encourage an opt-out  
> policy rather than an opt-in policy.

As an ISP, I can say with authority that 99.99% of all Internet users  
would not know what DNS were if it bit them, and are extremely  
confused by the unhelpful error messages which browsers provide when a  
domain name cannot be resolved. For this reason, opt-out rather than  
opt-in is perfectly appropriate for consumer connections. Yes, there  
are possible side effects, but anyone who knows how to operate  
equipment which is affected by them should also be knowledgeable  
enough to opt out (or have a business class connection rather than a  
consumer connection).

Providing help to one's users is not a "misuse" of anything. It's one  
of the things that ISPs are paid to do.

--Brett Glass




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