NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

Michael Thomas mike at mtcc.com
Sun Jan 3 20:18:31 UTC 2021


On 1/3/21 12:11 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> ----- 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.
>
The only reason I bring up DoH is because now there are tcp connection 
when the day before there were none. I haven't noticed any difference 
since firefox turned it, so they obviously figured out the scaling.

Mike



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