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BRE-ISNIC / bre-doh-analysis

To DoH or not to DoH?
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DoH is not only for applications #1

Open bortzmeyer opened 4 years ago

bortzmeyer commented 4 years ago

"DNS over HTTPS is a protocol which allows an application (such as a web browser) to fetch information from the global Internet Domain Name system"

No, DoH is a protocol. Like DoT or plain traditional DNS, it can be used by an application or by some part of the operating system. Nothing new here.

BRE-ISNIC commented 4 years ago

Your sentence is not in conflict with my sentence, what is your concern?

If I had said "...is a protocol which ONLY allows..." then there would be a problem here.

But I didn't write that, because you're right. :grinning:

Note that my goal with this document is not to give the reader a perfect and complete understanding of all the technicalities involved. It's to give an overview of the main characteristics of the tech and the main points that people are arguing about. I'm not concerned that my document does not cover every single detail, to do so would actually make the document less useful and harder to read because the key points would get lost in a sea of minutae. It's already probably too long and would probably benefit from focused editing and more omissions.

bortzmeyer commented 4 years ago

If the goal is to simplify the documents, you can as well omit "an application (such as a web browser)" and leaves thing both shorter, more correct and more generic.

My concern is that this document will plant wrong assumptions about DoH in the minds of the readers.