On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 01:16:41PM -0700,
Ted Hardie <ted(_dot_)ietf(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote
a message of 206 lines which said:
I believe that .onion is, essentially, a way for structuring
protocol addresses so that they appear to be DNS names. It does not
conform to the delegation model of the DNS,
It does not have to conform since .onion is a domain name, not a DNS
name. The whole point of this "registration" is to avoid leaks in the
DNS (section 2 of the draft).
This does not describe special handling _within the DNS_, but
instead removes a portion of the global namespace from the DNS at
all.
Same thing for RFC 6762 (which was the first applictaion of RFC 6761,
and nobody objected about it).