Reading for the end of January

Once upon a time, Apple made the machines that made me who I am. I
became who I am by tinkering. Now it seems they’re doing
everything in their power to stop my kids from finding that sense
of wonder.

allow Authoritative Nameservers to return varying replies based
upon the network address of the client that initiated the query
rather than of the client's Recursive Resolver.

His response?

if we're going to add client identity to the query, can we do so
in a more general way?  i'd like to know lat-long, country, isp,
language, and adult/child.  and the ip address should be
multiprotocol, covering ipv6.

The Internet economy rewards unlimited creativity in the
monetization of human action, and fairly often this takes the form
of some kind of intermediation. For DNS, monetized intermediation
means lying.

Off to go craft a budget for next year.