Re: [DNSOP] punctuation follies, I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-15.txt

[Paul Wouters <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2022, John Levine wrote:

> spec, it would take a long time for the changes to percolate out into
> the field. There is still plenty of software using TLS 1.1 which was
> published in 2006 and deprecated a year ago.

That does not apply to tor nodes though. These are forced to have some
minimum version of tor or else the nodes are kicked out of the network
for being too insecure. So their long tail is much shorter.

> You'd also need to update web browsers and the SOCKS proxies that are
> usually used to connect the TOR sessions to the browsers. How much
> time are you prepared to spend to persuade them all that they should
> allow _label as the rightmost label?

2-3 years.

Paul
ps. note that I don't think they will change to use _underscore.
ps2. I think we should drop alt, underscore et all proposals
ps3. and formally kill Special Use domains :P