The IESG has approved the following document: - 'DNS query name minimisation to improve privacy' (draft-ietf-dnsop-qname-minimisation-09.txt) as Experimental RFC This document is the product of the Domain Name System Operations Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Benoit Claise and Joel Jaeggli. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-qname-minimisation/ Technical Summary This document describes a technique that can improve the privacy of DNS queries by a technique called "QNAME minimalisation" where the DNS resolver no longer sends the full and original query name to the upstream server. Working Group Summary The document initially came up during some early discussions around DNS Privacy, which later spawned the DPRIVE working group. The behavior of minimizing query names (or QNAMES) was not a full solution, but the Working Group felt that the amount of work to make QNAME minimization work was small, that it should be done. Document Quality This document was extensively commented on, discussed and approved by a wide breath of the working group. There was broad consensus, and their was very little controversy. There are no implementations, but several have been discussed. There have been 2 IPR disclosures related to this document, both from the same company. The Working Group discussed the disclosures, and since the patent owners give a royalty-free, reasonable and non-discriminatory license to all implementors; and this is an experimental RFC so there is still questions on deployment; the document could move forward. Personnel Document Shepherd: Tim Wicinski Area Director: Joel Jaggeli
