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Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt> (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-08-12 15:58:57

On Aug 12, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Ted Hardie <ted(_dot_)ietf(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

​If you're willing to put a statement like it in the draft, that works for 
me; it would need to include a slightly broader commitment (not to step on 
other syntax bits, like the IDNA prefix etc), but I think the broader 
statement would go to exactly the same goal.

Given that this is about Onion Registration rather than about Tor Project, some 
wording like

“Onion addresses are [blah description blah] and which are consistent with DNS 
syntax limitations of 63 character labels..."

…which I think would impose a constraint whilst being aimed at the supposedly 
correct target.

I’ll copy Nick on this to be doubly certain.

I'm sorry to read in the above link that you feel beaten up by this; I've 
tried to be quite careful in noting that I think the fault here is in the 
registry itself, not this registration.  There were some unanticipated 
consequences to this that this registration brings to light; we now ​need to 
deal with those.   That's all that's going on.

Obliged.  From this end there is a clear and present deadline as described at:

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg14065.html 
<https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg14065.html>

…and I hope that amendments sympathetic with resolving this issue can be made 
without requiring a complete "go-around" cycle.

Thanks!

    - alec

—
Alec Muffett
Security Infrastructure
Facebook Engineering
London

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