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

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Tue, 14 July 2015 20:53 UTC

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Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:50:20 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt> (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 01:16:41PM -0700,
 Ted Hardie <ted.ietf@gmail.com> wrote 
 a message of 206 lines which said:

> ​I believe that .onion is, essentially, a way for structuring
> protocol addresses so that they appear to be DNS names.  It does not
> conform to the delegation model of the DNS,

It does not have to conform since .onion is a domain name, not a DNS
name. The whole point of this "registration" is to avoid leaks in the
DNS (section 2 of the draft).

> This does not describe special handling _within the DNS_, but
> instead removes a portion of the global namespace from the DNS at
> all.

Same thing for RFC 6762 (which was the first applictaion of RFC 6761,
and nobody objected about it).

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