[bind10-dev] Anonymization of b10-showtech output

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

At Wed, 4 Jul 2012 10:50:47 +0200,
Michal 'vorner' Vaner <michal.vaner at nic.cz> wrote:

> I'd like to discuss the possibilities we have here. I think we want to have
> these options, depending on the admins' need:
> • List everything as it is.
> • List everything, but anonymize it somehow (I'm not sure how, though).
> • Have options to omit parts of the output. Some info is still better then the
>   admin not sending anything at all.
> 
> What do you think of it? And do you have an idea how to anonymize the things?

I agree it can be a real concern; at least I can imagine some admins
don't like to include all of these.  I'm not sure whether there's a
clear/convenient way to differentiate sensitive and non sensitive
types of information though.  Different people tend to have different
opinions on the level of sensitivity and so it would be often
difficult to find a general solution.  It'd also be system dependent,
so the implementation can be very ad hoc.  One thing I can think of as
a possibility is to separate information internal to BIND 10 from
others, and provide a switch to exclude any of the latter (or maybe
it's excluded by default and we provide a switch to include it
explicitly).

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.