Re: [Asrg] 2. Improving Blacklists and Reputation Services

[Daniel Feenberg <feenberg at nber.org>]

Some years ago I saw a long essay posted on the web with a title something
like "DNS makes a bad distributed database for things other than domain
names". It was written in the style of an RFC, but it doesn't look like it
was ever made part of the series. 

I don't remember if the arguments made in the paper were good, or merely
repeated obvious points about the possible propagation of stale entries,
data format limitations, etc. Does anyone remember that paper?

I would add that the use of DNS for distributing RBL information has a
remarkable breadth of support covering all major open source and
proprietary MTAs, and could better be held up as a model for imitation,
rather than carping about minor shortcomings. 

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004, George Schlossnagle wrote:

> 
> On Feb 11, 2004, at 11:37 AM, Viktor S. Grishchenko wrote:
> > Excuse me for being pessimistic and being off-topic, but DNS wasn't 
> > engineered
> > to express reputation and trust. There is a high risk to be involved in
> > programming 3D shooter for exactly the Turing machine. H. Danisch 
> > states we
> > already do. (I currently don't think so.)
> 
> I don't completely get the analogy, but DNS was designed as an 
> informational system, having the authoritative record-holder for a 
> domain express policy information in a TXT record for that domain seems 
> well in-line with the original design.
> 
> George
> 
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