Re: [DNSOP] Adoption and Working Group Last Call for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

In article <CAHw9_i+xnC=[e-mail]> you write:
>On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Joe Abley <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> On 20 May 2015, at 13:12, Tim Wicinski wrote:
>>
>>> The draft can be found here:
>>>
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld/
>>>
>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld-01
>>>
>>> Please review the draft and offer relevant comments.

I've reread it and still think we should adopt it.

I share the concerns about calling .onion a TLD, but I think that's
easily fixable by calling it something like a special purpose
namespace, then going through the document and changing it where
appropriate.  When it's talking about stuff that happens through Tor,
it's a special purpose namespace, when about mitigating problems due
to leakage of queries into ordinary DNS software, that's where we say
there won't be a TLD with that name.

Yeah, in a world where everyone was prescient it'd be .onion.alt or
something like that, but we're the Internet Engineering Task Force,
not the Internet Theology Task Force.  Part of engineering is knowing
when to prefer a kludge that works over a beautiful design that won't.

R's,
John