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I'm glad the PSL exists, but it's a really ugly hack. The public-ness of a domain should be a queryable DNS record. We shouldn't make tons of programs bundle wh
by quotemstr 6y ago
I'm glad the PSL exists, but it's a really ugly hack. The public-ness of a domain should be a queryable DNS record. We shouldn't make tons of programs bundle what's essentially an out of band zone file when we could just use DNS as intended.
Yes, I know about the PSL DNS query service. That's only marginally better. The public suffix flag should be a record on the domain itself.
- schoen 6y agoThere is a concluded IETF WG called dbound (I don't know why it concluded!) and a current Internet-Draft about doing this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-levine-dbound-dns/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-levine-dbound-dns/
- sleevi 6y agoIt concluded because, despite everyone agreeing they wanted a unicorn, they couldn’t agree which breed of unicorn they wanted, and thus were unable to get one. Which is to say: things went wrong in circles because different folks had different problems, those different problems had incompatible requirements, and so things spun in circles for a number of years as every idea failed to solve the problem for everyone simultaneously, while narrowly-specified solutions were shot down for not solving enough problems.