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Re: [DNSOP] On squatting and draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names

Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com> Mon, 06 January 2014 18:48 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <ted.lemon@nominum.com>
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References: <20131231000412.GV4291@mx1.yitter.info> <52C323CE.3090909@grothoff.org> <20131231234421.GA5732@mx1.yitter.info> <52C48A4A.6090303@in.tum.de> <4C051985-6E70-463A-9672-02657842754D@vpnc.org> <52C5DA5C.1090605@grothoff.org> <20140102221823.GF8050@mx1.yitter.info> <20140106084704.GC27479@nic.fr> <20140106154859.GE10080@mx1.yitter.info>
To: Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] On squatting and draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names
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On Jan 6, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
> I realise that
> .onion is important to Tor, but I am sceptical that Tor has the
> Internet penetration that Bonjour did long before 6761 was published.

It seems to me that TOR is a pretty vital application, even if it's not as popular as .local (which, let's be honest, is almost never seen, much less typed, by an end user).   I am deeply skeptical of the idea that the only relevant factor here is how widespread the squatting is on a particular top-level special-use domain.

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