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

[Alec Muffett <[e-mail]>]

> On Aug 12, 2015, at 1:16 PM, Ted Hardie <[e-mail]> wrote:

> ​If you're willing to put a statement like it in the draft, that works for me; it would need to include a slightly broader commitment (not to step on other syntax bits, like the IDNA prefix etc), but I think the broader statement would go to exactly the same goal.

Given that this is about Onion Registration rather than about Tor Project, some wording like

“Onion addresses are [blah description blah] and which are consistent with DNS syntax limitations of 63 character labels..."

…which I think would impose a constraint whilst being aimed at the supposedly correct target.

I’ll copy Nick on this to be doubly certain.

> I'm sorry to read in the above link that you feel beaten up by this; I've tried to be quite careful in noting that I think the fault here is in the registry itself, not this registration.  There were some unanticipated consequences to this that this registration brings to light; we now ​need to deal with those.   That's all that's going on.

Obliged.  From this end there is a clear and present deadline as described at:

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg14065.html <https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg14065.html>

…and I hope that amendments sympathetic with resolving this issue can be made without requiring a complete "go-around" cycle.

Thanks!

    - alec

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Alec Muffett
Security Infrastructure
Facebook Engineering
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