Re: [DNSOP] discussion for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt

[Paul Wouters <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, hellekin wrote:

>> Is this meant to replace or augment
>> draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names ?
>>
> *** This draft only covers .onion, one of the two pTLDs related to the
> Tor Project in the P2PNames draft, so the obvious answer is that it
> won't replace it.  Now the P2PNames draft certainly can benefit from
> this discussion and will be amended accordingly.

It seems odd that two documents would be requesting an IANA action for
".onion" ?

> I understand the scope of this draft is to facilitate the adoption of
> .onion in the context of resolving the actual need of proper issuance of
> SSL certificates for .onion domains.

Than perhaps I completely misunderstood things? How does this relate to
DNS or DNSOP if it is about issuing SSL certificates only?

Paul