On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 1:55 PM, Joe Abley <jab...@hopcount.ca> wrote:
> ... > I would also support (as I have heard others say before, and as I think I > have also said) a separate document that provides advice to anybody else > planning to deploy code that uses a DNS-like namespace that is not the DNS. > Such people should either make their names unambiguously different from > those used in the DNS, or should anchor them somewhere else in the > namespace where defensive registrations in the DNS are less contentious. > For example, if the Tor project had used "onion.eff.org" instead of > "onion", we would not be having this conversation. Making such guidance > available would make it far easier to deal with the future possibility that > a decision with "onion" would set an unfortunate precedent. > ... The "onion.eff.org" idea only solves half of the problems - it would prevent others from using the domain for something else, but it fails to provide the required privacy - part of the requirement is that the onion names NOT be sent to DNS servers at all, for privacy. -- Bob Harold
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