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Re: [DNSOP] Alternative Special-Use TLD problem statement draft

"John R Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 08 April 2016 04:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Alternative Special-Use TLD problem statement draft
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>>> Just because TOR asks for .onion doesn't mean it should be given it.
>> 
>> The TOR project has been distributing software that special cases
>> the .onion TLD for close to a decade.
>> 
>> If the IETF said "you're wrong, go away", what exactly do you
>> think they would do?
> Who knows.

Here's a hint: They will keep using it, no matter what we say.

We're the Internet Engineering Task Force, not the Internet Religious Task 
Force.  Our job is to make things work as well as possible in the real 
world.  Sometimes that means dealing with situations where the facts are 
not the ones we would prefer.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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