Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsop-sutld-ps-05.txt> (Special-Use Domain Names Problem Statement) to Informational RFC

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

On Jun 12, 2017, at 11:00 AM, Job Snijders <[e-mail]> wrote:
> NEW:
>   The situation was somewhat forced, both by the fact that use of the
>   .onion domain name by the Tor Project predates the process described
>   in RFC 6761 by 9 years, and because a deadline [CABF-DEADLINE] had
>   been set by the CA/Browser Forum [CABF] after which all PKI
>   certificates for internal names would expire and no new certificates
>   would be issued. At the time .onion was considered an internal name.
>   IETF recognition of the .onion as a Special-Use Top-Level Domain Name
>   facilitated the development of a certificate issuance process
>   specific to .onion domain names [CABF-BALLOT144]. 
> 
> [CABF-DEADLINE] should link to https://www.digicert.com/internal-names.htm
> [CABF] should link to https://cabforum.org/
> [CABF-BALLOT144] should link to https://cabforum.org/2015/02/18/ballot-144-validation-rules-dot-onion-names/

Thanks, I think this is better text.

> I wasn't there, but reading ballot-144, some cabforum mails, and 
> https://blog.torproject.org/blog/landmark-hidden-services-onion-names-reserved-ietf
> it appears to me that all parties involved were actively trying to fix a
> long standing broken situation.

Yes, that's what it looked like to me as well.