Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt> (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

[Randy Bush <[e-mail]>]

> But we do not exist in a vacuum and I think the combination of 'because we
> coded it that way'  and 'we want it' are really very poor reasons to enact
> the special-use domain name request.

i support the request, but not for the social and process reasons being
raised.

the onion. dns space is outside of the normal dns space we all use.  if
someone were to be allowed to register foo.onion. as a child of the iana
root, it could be used as an attack on the person clicking the link,
taking them to a malicious site as opposed to the tor site.  not good.

while the document may be more process and political than security, to
me it is all about security, the safety of the user clicking an
onion. fqdn when not using a tor browser.

i return you to all the process issues.  do we already miss the dui
discussion? :)

randy