NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

Sun Jan 3 20:11:50 UTC 2021

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Thomas" <mike at mtcc.com>
> To: nanog at nanog.org

> On 1/2/21 10:31 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>> Yup; it's messy, and in many many different ways.  Won't be a snapshot
>> rollout.  Not a bad idea, though, if implemented correctly; time to dig
>> out my notes, I guess.
> 
> Is there a reason not to use an outbound tcp/quic connection? It was
> unthinkable years ago to use TCP with DNS, but now we have DoH and the
> world hasn't spiraled out of control. Heck if you made it a websocket
> you'd have a built in channel for multi-media html, etc. That is, just
> push a URL down and fire up a webview that the OS makes certain is in focus.

Well, TCP means that the servers have to expect to have 100k's of open 
connections; I remember that used to be a problem.

As for D'oH, sure; let's centralize the attack surface.

Cheers,
-- jra
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