Can you state clearly why? What is the primary concern here? I think a
proscriptive direction should provide reasoning.

-G

On Wed, Jul 29, 2026 at 5:45 AM Tim Wicinski <[email protected]> wrote:

> I support adopting this draft.   As for the security mechanism, I agree
> that it SHOULD be authenticated but also local policy.
> If I run a fleet of resolvers and control their cache, I SHOULD be able to
> synchronize even unsigned DNS records.
> But I SHOULD NOT be allowed to synchronize unsigned DNS records from
> resolvers not under my locus of control.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2026 at 2:43 PM Simon Jackson <simon=
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I agree entirely.
>>
>> We are dealing with Key-Value paired parameters, right?
>>
>> Perhaps an unspecified configuration (where the administrator has not set
>> key and value) must be declared by the RFC standard by default. This would
>> leave administrators the option to upgrade/replace (should/may) choose to
>> override each security parameter (key-value pair), selecting from the
>> approved list of values.
>>
>> > On 28 Jul 2026, at 12:26, Ondřej Surý <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >
>> > Absolutely, the draft should say that the backchannel SHOULD be
>> authenticated and secure. I am just against enforcing specific means to
>> achieve this.
>> >
>> > Ondrej
>> > --
>> > Ondřej Surý (He/Him)
>> >
>> > A gentle nudge is always appreciated if I take a little longer to reply.
>> >
>> >> On 28. 7. 2026, at 12:38, Simon Jackson <simon=
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Perhaps clear use of the verbs MUST, SHOULD, MAY, COULD…
>> >> Simon
>> >>
>> >>>> On 28 Jul 2026, at 10:19, Bill Woodcock <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> 
>> >>>
>> >>>>> On Jul 28, 2026, at 14:38, Ondřej Surý <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>> On 27. 7. 2026, at 07:54, Bill Woodcock <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>>> On Jul 20, 2026, at 17:55, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer=
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>>>>>
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bortzmeyer-dnsop-poisonlicious/
>> >>>>>>
>> >>>>>> I strongly support the effort, but would prefer DoT to be
>> mandatory, and DANE authentication to be preferred over TSIG, when
>> available.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I strongly believe the security mechanism should be a matter of
>> local policy
>> >>>> (and implementation defaults) rather than something enforced by the
>> Internet
>> >>>> Standard.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> So far, the DNS does not even enforce a secure transport and/or
>> authentication
>> >>>> for XFRs, so enforcing DoT/DANE/whatever for something that is going
>> to be
>> >>>> mostly used on internal networks feels over the top.
>> >>>
>> >>> Sorry, I should have said DoQ/DoT; force of habit.
>> >>>
>> >>> I hear you, but I think that as long as we make security optional, a
>> lot of people won’t bother, and then a lot of people writing code won’t
>> prioritize it, and then it won’t work when it’s needed.  Whereas if
>> everything is as secure as our current standards facilitate, all the time,
>> we only have a single build target and test case and the most-sensitive
>> traffic doesn’t have a target painted on its back.
>> >>>
>> >>> Why should HTTP be secure-by-default, but DNS not?
>> >>>
>> >>>                              -Bill
>> >>>
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