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<p>I've read the <u>Silence Is Not Golden</u> paper
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3576915.3616647">https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3576915.3616647</a>) and I've
written a response to it, and to Ondrej, and to this thread
generally. It's as long as an RFC so based on early feedback I've
posted it to my "blog":
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://consulting.m3047.net/dubai-letters/silence-is-tactical.html">http://consulting.m3047.net/dubai-letters/silence-is-tactical.html</a>
(That server does not take kindly to automated trespass.)<br>
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<p>As I have stated there, the malaise in question is easily
achievable for authoritative server operators as an own goal /
unforced error; severity depends on how many stakeholders' domains
are administered (pain = count(stakeholders) * count(domains)). To
the extent that it is a disease prevalent in the population it is
incubated and spreads on the overcrowded ranches and feedlots of
the public DNS providers and resolver operators whose stocks are
traded on the British financial exchanges far from the grasslands
and pastures of Colorado and Wyoming.</p>
<p>Espousing the view that private operators should respond to
literally thousands of spoofed / abusive queries for every one
legitimate one cannot be taken seriously by sane people, and is
not observed in the field. I strongly suggest that this should not
be a hill that <i>ISC </i>chooses to die on. Why does the <u>BIND
9</u> Response Policy Zone (RPZ) implementation provide Drop and
NXDOMAIN policies, but not REFUSED?<br>
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<p>The right not to respond SHOULD be entrenched as a core Internet
principle. The notion that unrelated parties are obliged to
respond on behalf of third parties who do not coordinate with them
is strange, overreaching, and dangerous.</p>
<p>I welcome discussion publicly or privately.</p>
<p>--</p>
<p>Fred Morris, internet plumber</p>
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