Re: [DNSOP] Tor frustration

2015-07-17 Thread Edward Lewis
On 7/18/15, 3:39, "DNSOP on behalf of Ralf Weber" wrote: >I'm ok with .onion being >a special name, but we should just do that by normal DNS >mechanism. What's wrong with answering REFUSED?. Answering >NXDomain is much harder in a DNSSEC world. If "onion" is not delegated in the root zone, then D

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread joel jaeggli
On 7/18/15 12:16 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: > On 07/17/2015 01:35 AM, David Conrad wrote: >> To be honest, I doubt this. It assumes folks who are developing >> these non-DNS protocols know/care about what the IETF thinks. > I suspect that more do than you think. However, what they think > about the I

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/17/2015 10:41 PM, John Levine wrote: > > A mechanical criterion might be "observable traffic from at least > 100,000 different IP addresses every day for at least 30 days." > That'd be a horrible criterion, not least because it's easy > for a modestly well funded adversary to fake. > *** Al

Re: [DNSOP] Tor frustration

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/17/2015 10:39 PM, Ralf Weber wrote: > > Am I right that there is leakage of dns requests with > .onion TLDs? If so isn't that a bug in their software? > *** Almost: 1) .onion is not a TLD (sorry, I made the mistake myself to abuse TLD, although I had defined pTLD for that purpose--as in: p

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread John Levine
>> With all due respect, this is a classic mistake that geeks make: thinking >> that there can be some objective criterion or >set of criteria that would make decisions simple. ... >As I've said several times, I believe there are objective criteria that would >cover the majority of cases. ... P

Re: [DNSOP] Tor frustration

2015-07-17 Thread Ralf Weber
Moin! On 17 Jul 2015, at 8:00, Hugo Maxwell Connery wrote: > For those who are trying to provide their comments to the > 6761 discussions, I highly recommend: > > 1. go to https torproject org and download the client > 2. Have wireshark / ethereal > 3. Start 2 and then 3 and see what happens on

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On 07/17/2015 07:10 PM, David Conrad wrote: Oh, and what "non-objective" criteria would those be? The ones in the special-names RFC, which the author and the working group apparently considered sufficient. Which, I am afraid, contradicts the point you were making about how we can have incomple

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread David Conrad
Ted, On Jul 18, 2015, at 12:16 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: > With all due respect, this is a classic mistake that geeks make: thinking > that there can be some objective criterion or set of criteria that would make > decisions simple. The reality is that to make criteria of this sort > objective wou

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On 07/17/2015 01:35 AM, David Conrad wrote: To be honest, I doubt this. It assumes folks who are developing these non-DNS protocols know/care about what the IETF thinks. I suspect that more do than you think. However, what they think about the IETF is that we have a very heavyweight process,

Re: [DNSOP] what's in .alt, was Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread John Levine
>That was exactly the draft I was thinking about David. But it does not >address Paul's quest for one RFC per mapping, as >.alt has no registry. > >I do think the path forward is one cutout (my opinion only) The absence of a registry is a feature. Or if there is an IANA registry, it should be

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On 07/17/2015 01:17 PM, Rubens Kuhl wrote: I personally have no position whether we shut the door before or after .ONION; there is already a number of names in this category so if .onion was the first I would strongly oppose its adoption, but since it's not, it doesn't care for the scale probl

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Rubens Kuhl
> Em 17/07/2015, à(s) 17:08:000, Ted Lemon escreveu: > > On 07/17/2015 12:40 PM, Rubens Kuhl wrote: >> - Deprecating that part of RFC6761 that allowed the .ONION request, shutting >> this door; > This would likely result in Warren's draft never getting consensus, so be > careful what you ask f

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Ted Lemon
On 07/17/2015 12:40 PM, Rubens Kuhl wrote: - Deprecating that part of RFC6761 that allowed the .ONION request, shutting this door; This would likely result in Warren's draft never getting consensus, so be careful what you ask for. If you want to make this change, it would be better to do it

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/17/2015 03:10 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > i apologize for the lack of a pre-existing syntactic framework into > which tor's names could have been encapsulated from the outset. i > apologize even more for the fact that tor's perfectly reasonable request > for .onion is now causing this working

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Rubens Kuhl
> >> More seriously, does that mean you're opposing the .onion draft, or are >> you simply drifting away to the later work on RFC6761bis? I'm asking >> because the authors requested .onion, not .tor, nor .tor.alt, nor >> .tor.external. > > by 6761, .ONION is a valid request and your papers are i

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Francisco Obispo
+1 The issue not being with ONION per se, but with the .CARROTs and the .FOOs of the future, having a reserved TLD/namespace with a registry along with a well defined process on how to do reserve names should be the way to go. We also need to close the doors to those who decide to ignore wha

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Paul Vixie
hellekin wrote: > On 07/17/2015 02:57 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: >> i would argue, by the way, that "onion" is a kind of technology, onion >> routing, of which Tor is the first and best-known but not the last. so, >> i'll prefer .tor.external over .onion.external. >> >> [snip] >> >> compared to alt, y

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/17/2015 02:57 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > i would argue, by the way, that "onion" is a kind of technology, onion > routing, of which Tor is the first and best-known but not the last. so, > i'll prefer .tor.external over .onion.external. > > [snip] > > compared to alt, yes. note that .external

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Paul Vixie
hellekin wrote: > On 07/17/2015 07:07 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:39:24PM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote: > >> we only need one cutout, something like .external, with an > >> IANA-maintained registry of non-dns uses, each pointing to an RFC > >> that describes as much as

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Paul Vixie
i think that deep discussion over whether .external is the right exit gateway from dns naming is premature, and that we should first decide whether a single exit gateway is preferred, and whether IANA should craft a registry of external-to-the-dns uses of the internet name space. i am in favour of

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/17/2015 12:17 PM, Eliot Lear wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Eliot Lear wrote: >>> I have no particular objection to the concept here, but I do have a >>> question about one sentence in the draft. Section 1 states: Like Top-Level Domain Names, .onion addresses can have an

[DNSOP] namespace control (was Re: Last Call: ...)

2015-07-17 Thread David Conrad
Stephane, On Jul 17, 2015, at 4:23 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >> I agree on the need for less friction, hence my interest in trying >> to find objective criteria. Lack of objective criteria pretty much >> guarantees the same sort of discussion and 'heavy process' you're >> complaining about.

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Richard, Thanks for the explanation. Please see below. On 7/17/15 4:38 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Eliot Lear wrote: >> I have no particular objection to the concept here, but I do have a >> question about one sentence in the draft. Section 1 states: >>>

[DNSOP] Tor frustration

2015-07-17 Thread Hugo Maxwell Connery
For those who are trying to provide their comments to the 6761 discussions, I highly recommend: 1. go to https torproject org and download the client 2. Have wireshark / ethereal 3. Start 2 and then 3 and see what happens on the wire. You can also access all of the design discussion and materi

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/17/2015 11:32 AM, David Conrad wrote: > > No. .LOCAL was not already in the root zone. .FOO is. > *** Therefore the .FOO label is not available for Special-Use anymore, end of story. A Special-Use name cannot be an already registered name in the root zone. If you referring to e.g., .corp t

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Hugo Maxwell Connery
Hi David, Sorry, comments here, rather than in context: Yes, the challenge is getting 6761 strings into the resolvers. If this is not achieved, it largely nullifies the efforts, from a privacy perspective, though it does enable the certificate issue. I suggest that the first, privacy, is the ma

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/17/2015 11:20 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: > I have no particular objection to the concept here, but I do have a > question about one sentence in the draft. Section 1 states: >>Like Top-Level Domain Names, .onion addresses can have an >>arbit

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Richard Barnes
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Eliot Lear wrote: > I have no particular objection to the concept here, but I do have a > question about one sentence in the draft. Section 1 states: >>Like Top-Level Domain Names, .onion addresses can have an arbitrary >>number of subdomain components. T

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread David Conrad
Stephane, On Jul 17, 2015, at 4:17 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: >> Well, even worse, what happens if decides >> to create a new dns-like protocol that uses .foo, does that mean >> that we should automatically block it? > > No need to speculate about "what happens". It already happened, the >

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread David Conrad
Hugo, On Jul 17, 2015, at 4:03 PM, Hugo Maxwell Connery wrote: > The goal here from the non-DNS people seems to be to have DNS type labels > (thus URI's) > which are known to the recursive and authoritative resolvers to be outside of > DNS. That appears to be the goal of some folks, however th

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 07:35:47AM +0200, David Conrad wrote a message of 73 lines which said: > It assumes folks who are developing these non-DNS protocols > know/care about what the IETF thinks. It is reasonable to assume that many of them do not even know that the IETF exists. We should th

Re: [DNSOP] Stability of identifiers (Was: Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread joel jaeggli
On 7/17/15 7:13 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 06:17:54PM +, > Edward Lewis wrote > a message of 148 lines which said: > >> URLs are nice for giving a reference, but there's still a need to curate >> the data. In particular, what if the torproject.org name regist

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Eliot Lear
I have no particular objection to the concept here, but I do have a question about one sentence in the draft. Section 1 states: >Like Top-Level Domain Names, .onion addresses can have an arbitrary >number of subdomain components. This information is not meaningful >to the Tor protocol

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 02:22:58PM -0700, Francisco Obispo wrote a message of 48 lines which said: > Well, even worse, what happens if decides > to create a new dns-like protocol that uses .foo, does that mean > that we should automatically block it? No need to speculate about "what happens"

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:35:12PM -0700, Francisco Obispo wrote a message of 207 lines which said: > We are trying to mitigate against unknowns and perhaps the best > solution is to have the TOR folks apply for .ONION on the next round > of TLD application and get a fully qualified delegation

[DNSOP] Stability of identifiers (Was: Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 06:17:54PM +, Edward Lewis wrote a message of 148 lines which said: > URLs are nice for giving a reference, but there's still a need to curate > the data. In particular, what if the torproject.org name registration > expires and is bought by someone else? Nothing

Re: [DNSOP] terminology, additional language for bailiwick

2015-07-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 04:36:54PM +, Wiley, Glen wrote a message of 144 lines which said: > Id like to suggest something like this: > > (a) An adjective to describe a name server whose name is either > subordinate to or (rarely) the same as the zone origin. In- > bailiwick name servers r

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Hugo Maxwell Connery
Hi, I am interested by the .a to .z, .alt and .external discussion. The goal here from the non-DNS people seems to be to have DNS type labels (thus URI's) which are known to the recursive and authoritative resolvers to be outside of DNS. If it is known that .a to .z are such; why where they no

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread joel jaeggli
On 7/16/15 9:04 AM, Richard Barnes wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 12:44 AM, Joe Hildebrand wrote: >> On 15 Jul 2015, at 5:37, David Conrad wrote: >> >>> I try to be pragmatic. Given I do not believe that refusing to put ONION >>> in the special names registry will stop the use of .ONION, the siz

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread joel jaeggli
On 7/15/15 10:16 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: >> I'm agreeing with Ted in that this application is insufficient. > > Whoa there, cowboy! I didn't say it was insufficient. I proposed > changes to the text that I think would result in it better expressing > what I think was intended. I can see some exp

Re: [DNSOP] comments on draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-terminology-03

2015-07-17 Thread joel jaeggli
On 7/16/15 6:44 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Andrew Sullivan > wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 01:30:03PM +0200, Warren Kumari wrote: >>> We shouldn't be figuring out how useful a WG is by the number of >>> documents published, but I don't think DNSOP is still whe

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Joseph Lorenzo Hall
+1 on support On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Tom Ritter wrote: > On 16 July 2015 at 00:44, Joe Hildebrand wrote: >> I don't see any mention of the CAB Forum stuff in the draft. Has anyone >> done the analysis to see if CAB Forum members really will issue certs to >> .onion addresses if we do

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/17/2015 07:07 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:39:24PM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote: >> we only need one cutout, something like .external, with an >> IANA-maintained registry of non-dns uses, each pointing to an RFC >> that de

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread David Conrad
Paul, On Jul 17, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > yes, but not with .ALT, which is a politically desirable gTLD name, and > which allows the connotation of "alternate DNS". i suggested .EXTERNAL > because nobody will ever want it as a gTLD and because its connotation > is unambiguously "not

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:39:24PM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote: > we only need one cutout, something like .external, with an > IANA-maintained registry of non-dns uses, each pointing to an RFC that > describes as much as is possible to describe about that use. Why is an IANA-maintained registry a good

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:51:05AM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote: > > yes, but not with .ALT, which is a politically desirable gTLD name, and > which allows the connotation of "alternate DNS". i suggested .EXTERNAL > because nobody will ever want it as a gTLD and because its connotation > is unambiguous

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread joel jaeggli
On 7/16/15 8:20 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: > On 07/15/2015 02:45 PM, Francisco Obispo wrote: >> It doesn’t feel right to me rewarding bad behavior. > I don't think it's fair to characterize this as "bad behavior." It is > completely unsurprising behaviour, as I explained in some detail in a > previous

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Paul Vixie
David Conrad wrote: > Paul, > > On Jul 17, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: >> we only need one cutout, something like .external, with an >> IANA-maintained registry of non-dns uses, each pointing to an RFC that >> describes as much as is possible to describe about that use. > > You mean like

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread Tim Wicinski
>From my high tech gadget > On Jul 17, 2015, at 09:04, David Conrad wrote: > > Paul, > >> On Jul 17, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: >> we only need one cutout, something like .external, with an >> IANA-maintained registry of non-dns uses, each pointing to an RFC that >> describes as muc

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread David Conrad
Paul, On Jul 17, 2015, at 8:39 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > we only need one cutout, something like .external, with an > IANA-maintained registry of non-dns uses, each pointing to an RFC that > describes as much as is possible to describe about that use. You mean like http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft