[IP] Comcast files "recommended practices" draft RFC with IETF for DNS Redirection

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
Date: July 13, 2009 8:38:44 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>, ip <ip@v2.listbox.com>, <karl@cavebear.com 
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Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   Comcast files "recommended practices" draft  
RFC with IETF for DNS Redirection


> I very much agree that this thing that Comcast proposal would be an
> utter disaster, particularly in that it would affect protocols that
> are not supporting a human user typing into a web browser and reading
> the responses on the screen.

As a minor point of clarification, this is seeming to be described by  
a few
on the thread (DNS redirect) as something that Comcast is suggesting  
for the
first time in the industry.  In actuality, this is a widespread ISP  
and DNS
ASP practice in place for many years around the world.  What is  
different
now is that we (Comcast) have decided to implement it **but** that we  
felt
it was important to be 100% transparent about it, to make sure people  
knew
we were doing it without a doubt, and to start a conversation at the  
IETF
and in other parts of the Internet community about the practice.  (And  
it is
quite natural that an open debate might lead to criticism or even  
issues of
concern that might lead to changes in the manner that such services are
provided.)

Regards
Jason





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