On 2/10/20 9:18 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:

On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 8:14 AM Mohit Sethi M 
<mohit.m.sethi=40ericsson....@dmarc.ietf.org<mailto:40ericsson....@dmarc.ietf.org>>
 wrote:

Hi Sara,

I understand the desire to get this done with. However, I have some further 
comments in-line:

On 1/24/20 5:29 PM, Sara Dickinson wrote:
Mohit,

I’m out of the office next week so in order to try to move the draft along I 
have published an -08 version which I think addresses most of your comments 
(there were a few questions in my response below). Please let me know if any 
are still outstanding.

Best regards

Sara.

On 17 Jan 2020, at 15:33, Sara Dickinson 
<s...@sinodun.com<mailto:s...@sinodun.com>> wrote:


On 29 Dec 2019, at 13:50, Mohit Sethi via Datatracker 
<nore...@ietf.org<mailto:nore...@ietf.org>> wrote:

Reviewer: Mohit Sethi
Review result: On the Right Track

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Document: draft-ietf-dprive-bcp-op-07
Reviewer: Mohit Sethi
Review Date: 2019-12-29
IETF LC End Date: 2020-01-02
IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat

Summary:
This draft discusses privacy challenges for recursive DNS resolvers. It then
describes policy and security considerations that DNS service providers can use
for enhanced user privacy. The draft is 'On the Right Track' but not yet ready.

Many thanks for the detailed review! Ben, Rob I hope theses fixes also address 
your comments.


Major issues:

I wonder if section 
5.1.2.1/5.1.3.1<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=91d59bed-cd5e90d7-91d5db76-86925ec6fd56-2a24500b228246a8&q=1&e=f2be251d-f590-4578-b7a9-ac8390a7396e&u=http%3A%2F%2F5.1.2.1%2F5.1.3.1>
 should also talk about recommending OCSP
stapling (RFC 6066)? I looked at RFC 8310 and it mentions RFC 7525. Do you want
to mention it here in section 
5.1.2.1/5.1.3.1<https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=5f5ab97a-03d1b240-5f5af9e1-86925ec6fd56-8fb25ccf521d98d2&q=1&e=f2be251d-f590-4578-b7a9-ac8390a7396e&u=http%3A%2F%2F5.1.2.1%2F5.1.3.1>?

What exactly are you thinking of here - something that just says “Server 
operators should also follow the best practices with regard to OCSP as 
described in RFC7525”? If something more could you please suggest text?

I was hoping that the text would be more precise rather than a cursory 
reference to another RFC. You could say something along the lines: 'The TLS 
client and server MUST use Certificate Status Requests [RFC6066] for the 
server's certificate chain and the client MUST treat a CertificateEntry (except 
the trust anchor) without a valid CertificateStatus extension as invalid and 
abort the handshake with an appropriate alert.'. In the same vein, I would 
expect that you would strongly mandate the use of TLS 1.3 with DoH and DNS over 
TLS?

Mohit: I actually don't think we should require OCSP at all. For instance, most 
browsers are moving away from it. We should require or at least strongly 
encourage revocation checking.

And what is it being replaced with? i found this blog on OCSP stapling in 
firefox: 
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2013/07/29/ocsp-stapling-in-firefox/. Is 
there an updated blog post about new techniques for revocation checking?

--Mohit

-Ekr




In section 5.1.2.1, what is meant by 'authentication domain names'? Later, the
text says 'authentication name for the service'. I guess you are implying the
authentic domain name of the DNS resolver service that the client software
should verify through the common name (CN) in the certificate? Some more
explanation here would be beneficial.

It is defined in the terminology section of RFC8310:

"Authentication domain name: A domain name that can be used to authenticate a 
privacy-enabling DNS server.  Sources of authentication domain names are 
discussed in Section 7."

I have added a reference for RFC8310 after the first use of ‘authentication 
domain name’ and made sure every instance of 'authentication name' is updated 
to 'authentication domain name' for clarity.
Personally, I find the phrase 'Authentication domain name' very unclear. From 
the phrase, it doesn't look like it has anything to do with DNS? On first 
reading, I interpreted it as the domain name where I should authenticate. Since 
the IESG let this through for RFC 8310, I guess we will have to live with this 
(poor) choice.


In section 5.1.4, should 'DNS Roadblock avoidance' be 'DNSSEC Roadblock
avoidance'? And please add a reference to RFC 8027 here if that is the case.

Yes, good catch - will do.


Section 5.1.7 says "discussion on the use of Bloom Filters in Appendix A". It
is pointing to the wrong appendix.

Fixed - thanks.

Also, this section talks about implementing
traffic monitoring by the DNS service provider. I would argue that in most
deployments, the traffic monitoring is required (and implemented) by a
different entity. Think of a home network router that has a parental control.
Or an enterprise restricting employees from visiting certain sites (to prevent
insider attacks)? The impact of encryption is more serious for them and less so
for a DNS service provider. What is the BCP advice for them?

You are correct that the there are differing concerns but I don’t believe this 
document should tackle that - the audience of the document is specifically 
operators of DNS privacy services, typically monitoring to prevent DDoS or 
similar, not network operators in general (although they may be both in some 
cases). For the more general case I think the impact is covered in RFC8404 
'Effects of Pervasive Encryption on Operators’?

I do notice a couple of places where just ‘operators’ is used in the text so 
could add ‘DNS Privacy Service’ before that to clarify?
I leave it to Alissa and IESG to decide what they want here.

Also, is it fair
to say that this is a best current practice? It feels that we need more
experience before we start recommending it as an optimization.

Given the specific scope discussed above I think it is fair. The privacy 
policies of most of the public resolver operators and ISPs that offer encrypted 
DNS are pretty good today in terms of how they try to minimise the user data 
retained and I’m sure they all still have monitoring in place…
My question was specifically about using Bloom filters? Which DNS operators are 
currently using it? Do we have sufficient evidence other than the research 
publication that this is 'Best Current Practice'?


This comment applies to all 5.1.1-5.1.8. Each subsection starts rather abruptly
by discussing threats. It would be nice if you add a sentence at the beginning
of each sub-section telling the reader what are they heading into. This is
probably most obvious from section 5.1.8. Without even telling the reader what
is a pure TLS proxy, you start listing the DNS privacy threats. Only later on
you mention option that operators may implement DNS-over-TLS using a TLS proxy.

If we go down this road then I think to be consistent we would need to add text 
for all 16 sections 5.1.1 to 5.3.3. I could do this but I have a feeling it 
would be come quite repetitive with respect to the section title text and I 
think if we could get the titles correct (and possibly add more text to section 
5) this might be unnecessary. I suggest:

Section 5: Add a first paragraph:
“In the following sections we first outline the threats relevant to the 
specific topic and then discuss the potential actions that can be taken to 
mitigate them.”thorita

And for section 5.1.8 change the title to “Limitations of fronting a DNS 
Privacy Service with a pure TLS proxy”.
Happy to update any other headers you thought too vague.

Would that address the issue or do you still think additional text is required?


In section 5.3.2 'way and OUGHT obfuscate'. OUGHT is not part of RFC 2119/8174.
Why is it capitalized? And, 'ought' ought to be followed by a 'to’.

I was confused by this and then realised it is a hangover from a much earlier 
version of the draft that used EXPECTED/OUGHT/MIGHT keywords defined in the 
draft to described the various levels of actions…. so as you suggest:

OLD: “For example, a resolver with a very small community of users risks 
exposing data in this way and OUGHT obfuscate this...”

NEW: “For example, a resolver with a very small community of users risks 
exposing data in this way and ought to obfuscate this..."


At the beginning of section 5, you describe three classes of actions. However,
none of the subsections contain clear "Additional options" that operators need
to follow for "maximal compliance”?

Sections 5.3.1 and 5.3.2 do have them. In earlier versions several more 
sections but they have been removed. thorita
Okay. Thanks. I hadn't seen this. I have a question related to the following 
text:


   o  Aggressive Use of DNSSEC-Validated Cache 
[RFC8198<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8198>] and 
[RFC8020<https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8020>]
      (NXDOMAIN: There Really Is Nothing Underneath) to reduce the
      number of queries to authoritative servers to increase privacy.

Suppose I own the domain mydomain.com<http://mydomain.com>? My application 
requires clients to lookup for non-existent sub domains. So if a client sends a 
query to the local resolver for 
non-existent1.mydomain.com<http://non-existent1.mydomain.com> and 
non-existent2.mydomain.com<http://non-existent2.mydomain.com>, will both be 
sent to the authoritative server for mydomain.com<http://mydomain.com>?


The document seems focused on TLS 1.2 (and does not talk about TLS 1.3). In
fact, RFC 8446 is not even in the list of references even though section
5.1.3.1 mentions it. Similarly, Appendix A.2 mentions TLS session resumption
without server-side state. How about servers using TLS 1.3 and PSK resumption?
RFC 8446 has text on client tracking in appendix C.4:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8446#appendix-C.4.

A slight hangover from the fact the DNS-over-TLS spec was published in 2015 
before TLS 1.3 was standardised (so it just says TLS 1.2 or later) and so most 
of the early DoT services used just TLS 1.2.

Section 5.1.3.1 had the text ‘RFC8446’ but it wasn’t actually a reference so 
I’ve fixed that - thanks.

I’ve added a bullet point to Appendix A.2
“RFC8446 Appendix C.4 describes Client Tracking Prevention in TLS 1.3"


There is something wrong about the last sentence of Appendix A.2 'Note that
depending on the specifics of the implementation [RFC8484] may also provide
increased tracking'. You already mention RFC 8484 in Appendix A.1 as a means to
increase privacy. Perhaps you wanted to cite a different RFC here?

The point is that the use of HTTP headers in DoH can add additional privacy 
concerns over the other DNS transports, but that RFC8484 leaves that as an 
implementation decision. I suggest replacing the text with

“Note that Section 8 of RFC8484 outlines the privacy considerations of DoH. 
Depending on the specifics of a DoH implementation there may be increased 
identification and tracking compared to other DNS transports."

Think of the reader of this document. Appendix A.1 says that DoH can increase 
privacy. The Appendix A.2 says that with DoH 'identification and tracking may 
be increased'  Should I use DoH or not? I recommend to re-phrase the text in 
A.2 along the lines 'While DoH can increase privacy, section 8 of RFC 8484 
outlines potential mechanisms that can nonetheless be used by on-path 
adversaries for correlation and tracking. As recommended in RFC 8484, DNS 
resolvers that offer DoH need to consider the benefit and privacy impact of 
these features, and their deployment context when deciding what features are 
enabled. Resolver implementations are advised to expose the minimal set of data 
needed to achieve the desired feature set.'


Minor issues:

Nits/editorial comments:

There is mixed usage of Anonymisation (in Table 1) vs Anonymization. The same
with Pseudoanonymisation (in Table 1) vs pseudonymization in text. Please check
with the RFC editor on what is expected and use that consistently. Also noticed
optimisation.

Thanks - have fixed. I have now used the American English forms (z not s) 
throughout.


In Table 1, Crytpographic should be Cryptographic.

Ack.


Maybe you could use an Oxford comma when using lists of items.

Had it some places, but not all - should be fixed now.


In section 5.1.2.1, there is stray space character at the end of the bullet on
"Follow the guidance in Section 6.5 of [RFC7525] with regards to certificate
revocation .”

Perhaps expand DNSSEC on first usage: Domain Name System Security Extensions
(DNSSEC).

In section 5.1.6 'in terms of such options as filtering' should instead be 'in
terms of options such as filtering'.

In section 5.1.8 'a DNS aware proxy such as [dnsdist] which offer custom
(similar to that proposed in'. Consider using 'offers' instead of 'offer' and
'similar to those proposed in' instead of 'similar to that proposed in'.

In section 5.2.2 'presents and overview' should be 'presents an overview'.
Consider rephrasing 'the better to resist brute force'. Also, in 'agreed
solution or any Standards to inform', why is standards capitalized?

In section 5.2.4 'queries on multiple TCP session' should be 'queries on
multiple TCP sessions'. Please expand CPE on first usage.

In section 6.3 'This is by analogy with e.g. several TLS or website' could
instead be 'This is analogous to several TLS or website'.

In Appendix A.1 'documents apply to recursive to authoritative DNS' shouldn't
there be an 'and’?

All fixed - thanks.


In Appendix C.1, consider changing the format for the sub bullets of '2..  Data
collection and sharing.'. Instead of numbering them with 1/2/3, perhaps use
a/b/c.

I’m currently using markdown which won’t let me do that…. :-( I do think that 
would be better so I suggest adding a note that this is done at RFC editor 
time….?

Yes, please do. It will help with readability.

Thanks for the rest of the changes.

--Mohit


In Appendix C.1 'of use of system' could be 'of system use'.. Also why is there
a line break between 'items that are' and 'included'? There is an extraneous
'the' in 'available with the our threat intelligence'. Consider re-wording
parts of paragraph '3. Sharing of data. '. At one place you say 'with our
threat intelligence partners' and a few words later you say 'with its threat
intelligence partners’.

Fixed.


In Appendix C.1 'In the event of events or observed behaviors' is a bit hard to
parse. Consider rephrasing the 'event of events' part.

Replaced events with actions.

Best regards

Sara.




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