DoH Preference Hints for HTTP
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Network Working Group                                        D. Schinazi
Internet-Draft                                                Google LLC
Intended status: Experimental                                N. Sullivan
Expires: July 11, 2020                                           J. Kipp
                                                              Cloudflare
                                                        January 08, 2020

                     DoH Preference Hints for HTTP
             draft-schinazi-httpbis-doh-preference-hints-01

Abstract

   When using a publicly available DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) server, some
   clients may suffer poor performance when the authoritative DNS server
   is located far from the DoH server.  For example, a publicly
   available DoH server provided by a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
   should be able to resolve names hosted by that CDN with good
   performance but might take longer to resolve names provided by other
   CDNs, or might provide suboptimal results if that CDN is using DNS-
   based load balancing and returns different address records depending
   or where the DNS query originated from.  This document attempts to
   lessen these issues by allowing the web server to indicate to the
   client which DoH server can best resolve its addresses.  This
   document defines an HTTP header field that enables web host operators
   to inform user agents of the preferred DoH servers to use for
   subsequent DNS lookups for the host's domain.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  The DoH-Preference Header Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  The max-age Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.2.  Examples  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   3.  Server Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     3.1.  Considerations For Choosing a Preferred DoH Server  . . .   4
   4.  Client Behavior . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     4.1.  Fallback  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   5.  Internationalization Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   6.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   7.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   8.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     8.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     8.2.  URIs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7

1.  Introduction

   When using a publicly available DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) server, some
   clients may suffer poor performance when the authoritative DNS server
   is located far from the DoH server.  For example, a publicly
   available DoH server provided by a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
   should be able to resolve names hosted by that CDN with good
   performance but might take longer to resolve names provided by other
   CDNs, or might provide suboptimal results if that CDN is using DNS-
   based load balancing and returns different address records depending
   or where the DNS query originated from.  This document attempts to
   lessen these issues by allowing the web server to indicate to the