Re: draft-ietf-dnsext-forgery-resilience-01.txt

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Stephane Bortzmeyer:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 10:43:06AM +0100,
>  Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote 
>  a message of 12 lines which said:
>
>> > * a reference (normative?) to RFC 4086 would be a very good idea, with
>> > a link from section 9 "Implementations SHOULD use good random source
>> > to select a Query ID"
>> 
>> There is no industry consensus that this is a good idea.
>
> What is not a good idea? "Implementations SHOULD use good random
> source to select a Query ID" or "The draft should add a reference to
> RFC 4086"?

The former.  It has been argued that non-repeating query IDs are more
important than good randomness.  I tried very hard to understand this,
but I still don't get it.

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