A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Internet Area. The IESG has not made any determination yet. The following draft charter was submitted, and is provided for informational purposes only. Please send your comments to the IESG mailing list (iesg at ietf.org) by 2014-10-13. DNS PRIVate Exchange (dprive) ------------------------------------------------ Current Status: Proposed WG Assigned Area Director: Brian Haberman <brian@innovationslab.net> Charter: The DNS PRIVate Exchange (DPRIVE) Working Group develops mechanisms to provide confidentiality to DNS transactions, to address concerns surrounding pervasive monitoring (RFC 7258). The set of DNS requests that an individual makes can provide an attacker with a large amount of information about that individual. DPRIVE aims to deprive the attacker of this information. (The IETF defines pervasive monitoring as an attack [RFC7258]) The primary focus of this Working Group is to develop mechanisms that provide confidentiality between DNS Clients and Iterative Resolvers, but it may also later consider mechanisms that provide confidentiality between Iterative Resolvers and Authoritative Servers, or provide end-to-end confidentiality of DNS transactions. Some of the results of this working group may be experimental. DPRIVE is chartered to work on mechanisms that add confidentiality to the DNS. While it may be tempting to solve other DNS issues while adding confidentiality, DPRIVE is not the working group to do this. DPRIVE will not work on any integrity-only mechanisms. Examples of the sorts of risks that DPRIVE will address can be found in [draft-bortzmeyer-dnsop-dns-privacy], and include both passive wiretapping and more active attacks, such as MITM attacks. DPRIVE will address risks to end usersâ?? privacy (for example, which websites an end user is accessing). Some of the main design goals (in no particular order) are: - Provide confidentiality to DNS transactions (for the querier). - Maintain backwards compatibility with legacy DNS implementations. - Require minimal application-level changes. - Require minimal additional configuration or effort from applications or users Milestones: Dec 2014 - WG LC on an problem statement document Mar 2015 - WG selects one or more primary protocol directions Jul 2015 - WG LC on primary protocol directions
