[anti-abuse-wg] DNS Abuse, Abuse of Privacy & Legitimizing Criminal Activity

Andre,

On Jan 3, 2017, at 9:57 PM, ox <andre at ox.co.za> wrote:
> When respected Internet Engineers and organizations develop standards
> for Internet software that completely ignores ethics, morality,
> honesty and is pale and anemic in the truth department?

You've developed quite the messianic complex here.

> I strongly object to RPZ being peddled as a "standard" by the Internet Community.

The presumed draft you're unhappy about (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-vixie-dns-rpz/) is informational. It is not a standard.

> RPZ will destroy the Internet - people are lazy (i am lazy also)

Actually, it is the people who do stuff that makes RPZ a solution that are destroying the Internet. RPZ is a hack that some folks find useful in addressing particular forms of abuse, nothing more.

> Quite obviously we, as an Internet Community, already no longer cares
> much about the truth of something, which is also why we live in a
> post-truth planet.

Yow. RPZ is a tool. You don't like that tool? Don't use it. You care about the "truth"? Do your own DNSSEC validation.

Personally, I'd prefer a world where there are fewer tools that are well described, even if some times those tools may be used in ways that I don't agree with, than in a world of a myriad of tools, poorly described, all trying to solve the same problem (using a solution I may not agree with), doing it in ways that are incompatible.

Or do you think that by refusing to document something that it magically goes away?

Regards,
-drc
(speaking only for myself)



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