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Steps to insure a performant, secure, correct Domain Name System for the Public
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To the Internet it may concern,

Public DNS was founded upon a tripartit rational, and I Groups to you today to suggest a new heading to affirm that course once nobly set upon. I hope we gathered at this Public DNS rallying point still affirm these benefits, hold it true that Google has set them out them justly:

  1. Performance.
  2. Security. DNS is vulnerable to various kinds of spoofing attacks that can "poison" a nameserver's cache and route its users to malicious sites.
  3. Correct results. Google Public DNS does its best to return the right answer to every query every time, in accordance with the DNS standards.

To serve these ends, Google has implemented:

  1. A performant, secure, correct recursive resolver, available to the public on two IPv4 addresses, 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

I would have Public DNS take two additional steps to further the reach and capability of the performant, secure, and correct Public Domain Name System thus started:

  1. Google should accept and service requests on all IP addresses hosting www.google.com and google.com web services.
  2. Google should host DNS-over-HTTP services for the public on www.google.com and google.com.

Taking these two steps will insure the benefits of a performant, secure, and correct domain name system remain ongoing to netizens.

I submit finally a petition for your consideration, and I ask that you share your consideration of it with others. Through these steps I have outlined and through ongoing conversation and raising of awareness, I hope all attending this Public DNS Groups will come to find the assurances we seek: that Internet travelers might know the protection of a secure, performant, and correct resolving system.

Thank you for your time. Fair regards, surf safe, and I look forwards to meeting you again out there, Yours, rektide

P.S.: Do not forget to sign the petition if you wish to help maintain Public DNS's relevance! A short url for use: http://goo.gl/TQHZ1E

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