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What exactly is he proposing? Without some additional change, if I make a link to http://bank.com, any MITM can trivially force an unencrypted connection and somehow the user needs to notice (or be lucky enough to have HSTS know about bank.com).

I can see an argument for having DANE-like records include an HSTS instruction, but nothing like that is mentioned in the article.




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