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

[David Cake <[e-mail]>]

There are plausible, if unlikely, circumstances in which a fork, not just of the Tor project software itself, but of the entire project including the specific URL, might happen. While this argument is an attempt at a reductio ab absurdum, I do not think it is - the circumstance described is unlikely, but not absurd. In other words, I agree with Ted.
And as a much more active contributor to ICANN processes than IETF ones, I think Ted is right in characterisation of the appropriate interaction here.

	David

> On 16 Jul 2015, at 3:53 am, Ted Lemon <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On 07/15/2015 11:46 AM, Edward Lewis wrote:
>> What if I copied the onion draft, changed all of the uses of onion to
>> carrot, and then threw in some supporting documents to describe some other
>> system that used carrot as it's base identifier?  On the heels of onion's
>> admission to the Special Use Domain Names registry, could I expect to have
>> carrot admitted too?
> 1. Do you seriously think DNSOP would have had consensus to advance such a draft?
> 2. If DNSOP did have consensus to advance such a draft, what would your objection be?
> 
> I think that DNSOP would not advance such a draft unless a lot of reasonable people decided that they believed that .carrot was needed.   And if DNSOP did indeed advance such a draft, I think that it would be the right thing to do to go to ICANN and say "what do you guys think about this?"   I don't think we would be in a position to make demands, but we should be able to have the conversation.
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