[dns-wg] European Resolver Policy

On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 01:49:35PM +0000,
 Brett Carr <brett.carr at nominet.uk> wrote 
 a message of 179 lines which said:

> Those of you who were on the WG Call last week will of seen Andrew
> Campling from 419 Consulting give a presentation on the newly
> developed European Resolver policy.

Note that despite its name, it is not an "european policy", it is just
an individual work developed in Europe. (Hey, I will rebrand my blog
as "the European Blog".)

> This is an attempt to get resolver operators to operate in a
> standard way safeguarding the privacy of their users, some of the content is based around:
> 
> RFC 8932 Recommendations for DNS Privacy Service Operators

Indeed, and the so-called "European Resolver Policy" does not have any
advantage over RFC 8932 (a good document, I suggest all resolver
operators should read it).

> This policy document has already received some positive feedback and
> some organisations have already come out in support.

And some negative, too, for instance when it asks resolvers to be
lying resolvers by default. Otherwise, it brings very little new content.

>   1.  DNS WG Members review the policy, provide feedback to the authors for potential updates/changes and then when we are happy it is rubber stamped as approved by the RIPE DNS WG
>   2.  Andrew (and other volunteers), turn this into a RIPE Document format which the WG then discuss and modify as needed and then that goes through the process to ratify it as an official RIPE Document.

No. Instead, the DNS WG should raise awareness about RFC 7626 and RFC
8932.