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

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Thu, 21 May 2015 16:11 UTC

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From: Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 12:11:42 -0400
To: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Adoption and Working Group Last Call for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld
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On May 20, 2015, at 7:27 PM, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
>> Such people should either make their names unambiguously different from
>> those used in the DNS, or should anchor them somewhere else in the namespace
>> where defensive registrations in the DNS are less contentious. For example,
>> if the Tor project had used "onion.eff.org" instead of "onion", we would not
>> be having this conversation.
> 
> This is also in
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wkumari-dnsop-alt-tld-06 - Section 4
> - Advice to developers.

Unfortunately, I do not think this is good advice.   Domain registrations have to be renewed, and while I hope the EFF lasts for a long time, there is no reason to think it will outlive the .onion domain, and even if it does, that it will not be rebranded at some point in the future.   Special-use domains that have actual protocol uses should not be hung off of domains that are subject to renewal.   So while I think .ALT would work for this use case (issues of brevity aside), I think eff.org will not.

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