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

On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:16:37PM +0000, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
>
>> I realized after uploading that I hadn't sent this along for discussion.
>
>> > Name:               draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld
>
> I've read this draft.  I have a few comments.
>
> To begin with, in general I think this document is on the right path
> and something very close to it should be published.

+1. This is useful.

W

>  It's
> narrowly-focussed, I _think_ it meets the template requirements of RFC
> 6761 (but see a remark below).  It's clearly a technical distinction,
> because this approach is a backward-compatible user interface
> namespace without any real DNS vestige at all: it's not intended to be
> a general-purpose identifier system on the Internet, but rather as I
> understand it a cryptographic identifier in the Tor network.
>
> I have a couple nits:
>
> In section 1, it'd probably be useful to pick up the term "domain name
> slot" that was introduced by RFC 5890.  This is not an i18n case, of
> course, but that's sort of the point: this is an example of something
> that more or less fits in places people already use ordinary DNS
> domain names, but this name is special and actually not in the DNS as
> it shows up in the domain name slot.
>
> In section 4, 3-5, what if a "synthetic" NXDOMAIN gets generated and
> cached?  Will that have any effect on .onion resolution?  If this is
> explained in detail in some thing I've failed to follow, a simple
> reference would be enough.
>
> Best regards,
>
> A
>
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