Subject: [DNSOP] draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc7816bis: More Results for the Experiment

From: "Hollenbeck, Scott" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:13:16 +0000

Yesterday, Verisign published a blog post [1] that includes a description of the growth rate of QNAME-minimized queries that we've seen at the A and J root servers and the .COM and .NET name servers since 2018. Section 8 of draft-ietf-dnsop-rfc7816bis ("Results of the Experimentation") doesn't currently include any information that describes how the number of QNAME-minimized queries received by root and TLD servers has increased over time, so I'd like to suggest adding the following:

"Research performed by Verisign [1] confirms that in January 2018, 32% of queries received at the A and J Root servers contained only one label, while 30% of queries received at the .COM and .NET name servers consisted of only two labels. By August 2020, those measures have increased to 53% and 49%, respectively."

[1] https://blog.verisign.com/security/maximizing-qname-minimization-a-new-chapter-in-dns-protocol-evolution/

Scott