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

2015-08-14 Thread Roy T. Fielding
> On Aug 10, 2015, at 3:54 PM, Darcy Kevin (FCA) > wrote: > > In retrospect, the definition of the “http” and “https” schemes (i.e. RFC > 7230) should have probably enumerated clearly which name registries were > acceptable for those schemes, I generally try to avoid enumerating things that a

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

2015-08-12 Thread Darcy Kevin (FCA)
.onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard On Aug 10, 2015, at 3:54 PM, Darcy Kevin (FCA) mailto:kevin.da...@fcagroup.com>> wrote: In retrospect, the definition of the “http” and “https” schemes (i.e. RFC 7230) should have probably enumerated clearly which name registrie

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

2015-08-11 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Darcy" == Darcy Kevin (FCA) writes: Darcy>In retrospect, the definition of the Darcy> €œhttp€ and Darcy> €œhttps€ schemes (i.e. RFC 7230) should Darcy> have probably enumerated clearly which name registries were Darcy> acceptable for those schemes, so that the fo

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

2015-08-10 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 07:25:23PM +, Alec Muffett wrote: > > Some Googling suggests that the http:// scheme is defined in RFC 2616, which > - to summarise - again does not mandate DNS. > I'm by no means an expert on the scheme, but I think following the references means that 2616 does in f

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

2015-08-10 Thread Alec Muffett
Kevin, > On Aug 10, 2015, at 3:54 PM, Darcy Kevin (FCA) > wrote: > > In retrospect, the definition of the “http” and “https” schemes (i.e. RFC > 7230) should have probably enumerated clearly which name registries were > acceptable for those schemes, so that the following language from RFC 732

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

2015-08-10 Thread Mark Nottingham
Kevin, On 11 Aug 2015, at 6:54 am, Darcy Kevin (FCA) wrote: > > In retrospect, the definition of the “http” and “https” schemes (i.e. RFC > 7230) should have probably enumerated clearly which name registries were > acceptable for those schemes, so that the following language from RFC 7320 (a

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

2015-08-10 Thread Darcy Kevin (FCA)
Barnes; dnsop@ietf.org; Mark Nottingham Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard On Aug 10, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Joe Hildebrand mailto:hil...@cursive.net>> wrote: If the smiley means "they're already deployed, so we don't get t

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

2015-08-10 Thread Alec Muffett
> On Aug 10, 2015, at 1:25 PM, Joe Hildebrand wrote: > > If the smiley means "they're already deployed, so we don't get to talk about > whether they're appropriate", then fine, but that's why a bunch of people are > complaining about the precedent this sets. If the smiley means "this is a > g

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

2015-08-10 Thread John R Levine
Five years is not enough. Think in terms of 20 to 50 years. Oh, of course. I was thinking of five years as the review cycle for names that people might want to reconsider. Mark wrote: If .BELKIN is reserved then it is not available to *anyone* including Belkin. The simplist fix for .BELKI

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

2015-08-10 Thread Joe Hildebrand
On 10 Aug 2015, at 13:25, Alec Muffett wrote: So, by this analysis I think Onions in http (and by extension https) are fine. Not to mention, appropriate. :-) If the smiley means "they're already deployed, so we don't get to talk about whether they're appropriate", then fine, but that's why

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

2015-08-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20150810191030.13804.qm...@ary.lan>, "John Levine" writes: > >> I believe that the registry we have currently defined doesn't do a great j > ob of capturing the actual needs here. > > Agreed. It seems to me that there are two somewhat separate things going on > here. > > One is th

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

2015-08-10 Thread Steve Crocker
Five years is not enough. Think in terms of 20 to 50 years. On Aug 10, 2015, at 3:10 PM, John Levine wrote: >>> I believe that the registry we have currently defined doesn't do a great >>> job of capturing the actual needs here. > > Agreed. It seems to me that there are two somewhat separat

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

2015-08-10 Thread Alec Muffett
Hi again, Ted! > On Aug 10, 2015, at 11:42 AM, Ted Hardie wrote: > […] > ​I think the Internet community needs to understand that a reservation in the > encompassing name space means that no gTLD with the same string will be > permitted in the DNS and understand who has the right specify the p

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

2015-08-10 Thread John Levine
>> I believe that the registry we have currently defined doesn't do a great job >> of capturing the actual needs here. Agreed. It seems to me that there are two somewhat separate things going on here. One is the .ONION issue. It's a domain name string that has a coordinated use that is imple

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

2015-08-10 Thread Ted Hardie
Hi Alec, On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: > > Hi Ted, thanks for the feedback. > > I don’t see any question in the above which impinges upon the draft so > much as being related to internal operations of IETF and/or DNSOP, but I’d > like to reinforce that CA/B-Forum are appa

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

2015-08-10 Thread hellekin
On 08/10/2015 01:50 PM, Ted Hardie wrote: > ​ > It does a fine job with .example since that's fundamentally > just a reservation, but .onion is showing its warts. > Hi Ted, I fully agree with Alec, and do not understand how .onion would differ from .example in that case, especially since as we're

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

2015-08-10 Thread Alec Muffett
On Aug 10, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Ted Hardie wrote: > > I believe that the registry we have currently defined doesn't do a great job > of capturing the actual needs here. It doesn't define what the larger > namespace encompassing the DNS is or could be well, and it doesn't provide a > way to note

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

2015-08-10 Thread Ted Hardie
Hi Alec, ​ You wrote: > ​To address Edward’s implicit request for information - rather than to > address his request for document pointers - I’d like to share that I > sketched how onion addressing works in previous discussion at: > > https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg13758.ht

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

2015-08-08 Thread Alec Muffett
> On Aug 7, 2015, at 4:26 PM, Edward Lewis wrote: > … the documents I have access to do not give me a deep enough sense > of, well, why the names are different from DNS domain names. I presume > they are from the email discussion, but what I am reading in the documents > - and I stress "reading

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

2015-08-07 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <5d60ceeb-a781-4db4-aad6-9ef57a482...@difference.com.au>, David Cake writes: > > > On 16 Jul 2015, at 4:11 am, Francisco Obispo > wrote: > > > > > >> This was proposed in the working group. It obviously doesn't work, > >> first because TOR can't come up with that kind of money, but

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

2015-08-07 Thread Jacob Appelbaum
On 8/7/15, Edward Lewis wrote: > On 8/7/15, 10:29, "DNSOP on behalf of Wendy Seltzer" > wrote: > >>You might find https://spec.torproject.org/ helpful as a listing of >>various tor specs and design documents, if you prefer that to a git >>repository. > > That's the site I've been using. > What d

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

2015-08-07 Thread Edward Lewis
Thanks. That is indeed what I'm working on. And yes, that description is clear and helpful and "deprecates" (in my mind) the notion that the names were too long for the DNS. (Just wish it was that clear in a Tor document. ;) ...said for the purposes of the last call.) On 8/7/15, 11:38, "Chris B

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

2015-08-07 Thread Chris Baker
> > why the names are different from DNS domain names. I think this is where Andrew's distinction between "the DNS" and a larger concept of name space is needed. Onion names are different in that they are names for a different resolution process which uses a distributed hash table operated by th

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

2015-08-07 Thread Edward Lewis
On 8/7/15, 10:29, "DNSOP on behalf of Wendy Seltzer" wrote: >You might find https://spec.torproject.org/ helpful as a listing of >various tor specs and design documents, if you prefer that to a git >repository. That's the site I've been using. > >While Tor has not necessarily used IETF convent

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

2015-08-07 Thread Wendy Seltzer
On 08/07/2015 09:50 AM, Edward Lewis wrote: > (The last call is still on...) > > I am trying to write another document and wanted to include descriptions > of ".onion" names. > > I'm seeking authoritative references but am having some trouble doing so. > This isn't meant to be a replay of my prev

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

2015-08-07 Thread Edward Lewis
(The last call is still on...) I am trying to write another document and wanted to include descriptions of ".onion" names. I'm seeking authoritative references but am having some trouble doing so. This isn't meant to be a replay of my previous comment that the draft under discussion is poorly sup

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

2015-07-27 Thread David Cake
> On 16 Jul 2015, at 4:11 am, Francisco Obispo wrote: > > >> This was proposed in the working group. It obviously doesn't work, first >> because TOR can't come up with that kind of money, but second because TOR >> doesn't want a TLD (hellekin's erroneous statements notwithstanding). What

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

2015-07-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, July 20, 2015 13:50 -0400 Bob Harold wrote: > This thread has taught me more about the .onion names - thanks > for that. But I would have to agree with those that think this > bit of explanation is unnecessary to the RFC and should be > excluded, rather than attempting to clarify i

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

2015-07-22 Thread Ian Maddison
Hi, While I guess most of you are in Prague having discussions about these things, I hope you won’t mind someone who is unable to attend but who follows your work on the mailing lists from expressing an opinion... > On 17 Jul 2015, at 08:39, Paul Vixie wrote: > > we only need one cutout, some

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

2015-07-20 Thread Bob Harold
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: > So... Alec and I did a bit of wordsmithing and what I propose is a slight > clarification on the existing text, based on this exchange, and here it is: > > >Like Top-Level Domain Names, .onion addresses can have an arbitrary >number of

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

2015-07-20 Thread hellekin
On 07/20/2015 10:34 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: > So... Alec and I did a bit of wordsmithing and what I propose is a > slight clarification on the existing text, based on this exchange, and > here it is: > > >Like Top-Level Domain Names, .onion addresses can have an arbitrary >number of subdoma

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

2015-07-20 Thread John Levine
>For clarity, I believe ICANN has placed the delegation of .CORP on hold >indefinitely. >I do not believe ICANN has stated that .CORP "will not be delegated." Part of >the >reason for this discussion is due to this fact. Since the new gTLD program still has five active applications for .CORP, ea

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

2015-07-20 Thread Eliot Lear
So... Alec and I did a bit of wordsmithing and what I propose is a slight clarification on the existing text, based on this exchange, and here it is: Like Top-Level Domain Names, .onion addresses can have an arbitrary number of subdomain components. Only the first first label to the lef

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

2015-07-20 Thread Alec Muffett
> > Yes, there is an HTTP Host header. Yes, responses vary by the *value* but > not by the *structure*. As far as Apache is concerned, for instance, I would > imagine it's doing a string compare without counting or considering dots. By > discussing an arbitrary number of components, that par

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

2015-07-20 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 20 Jul 2015, at 10:22, David Conrad wrote: > On Jul 20, 2015, at 5:53 AM, David Cake wrote: > >> Of course, ICANN has already determined that .corp does pose a security >> issue of sufficient significance that .corp will not be delegated. > > For clarity, I believe ICANN has placed the deleg

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

2015-07-20 Thread David Conrad
David, On Jul 20, 2015, at 5:53 AM, David Cake wrote: > Of course, ICANN has already determined that .corp does pose a security issue > of sufficient significance that .corp will not be delegated. For clarity, I believe ICANN has placed the delegation of .CORP on hold indefinitely. I do not b

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

2015-07-20 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi David, On 7/20/15 6:06 AM, David Cake wrote: > As someone with moderate experience in both DNS and web server > configuration, FWIW I found the meaning relatively obvious. The notion > that HTTP Host headers might be used to change web server response > independent of name resolution (e.g. that

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

2015-07-19 Thread David Cake
As someone with moderate experience in both DNS and web server configuration, FWIW I found the meaning relatively obvious. The notion that HTTP Host headers might be used to change web server response independent of name resolution (e.g. that two names that return identical responses to every po

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

2015-07-19 Thread David Cake
> On 17 Jul 2015, at 10:52 pm, hellekin wrote: > > 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 registe

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

2015-07-19 Thread David Cake
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 unli

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

2015-07-19 Thread David Cake
> On 16 Jul 2015, at 3:35 am, Francisco Obispo wrote: > > +1. > > I don’t think IETF should be chasing around widely used TLDs and trying to > block them, it will be a never ending chase. > > We are trying to mitigate against unknowns and perhaps the best solution is > to have the TOR folks

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

2015-07-19 Thread David Cake
> On 15 Jul 2015, at 8:42 pm, Edward Lewis wrote: > 4. Caching DNS Servers and > 5. Authoritative DNS Servers > > I really believe that for DNS elements, there should be no change. By > intent, the onion names are not to be presented to the DNS by what's in > category 2 and 3 (Applications and

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

2015-07-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* 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 n

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] 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] 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] 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

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: >>>

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
16:31 To: Hugo Maxwell Connery Cc: dnsop@ietf.org Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard 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

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] 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

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

2015-07-17 Thread Hugo Maxwell Connery
-boun...@ietf.org] on behalf of David Conrad [d...@virtualized.org] Sent: Friday, 17 July 2015 13:30 To: Paul Vixie Cc: dnsop Subject: Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard Paul, On Jul 17, 2015, at 9:51 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > yes, but not with .AL

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] 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

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

2015-07-16 Thread Paul Vixie
David Conrad 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. We can add it to the special-use domain name registry if the IETF has >> consensus to do so, but there's n

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

2015-07-16 Thread David Conrad
Ted, > To expand on this ever so slightly, the reason why things like this happen is > because the process for approving special-use allocations is perceived as too > heavyweight, so people don't bother to do it in anticipation of an experiment. To be honest, I doubt this. It assumes folks who

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

2015-07-16 Thread David Conrad
>> 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. We can add it to the special-use domain name registry if the IETF has > consensus to do so, but there's nothing automatic about i

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

2015-07-16 Thread Edward Lewis
On 7/16/15, 9:57, "DNSOP on behalf of 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 this? Do

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

2015-07-16 Thread Richard Barnes
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 size of the >> installed base of TOR implementation

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

2015-07-16 Thread Ted Lemon
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 message: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/w

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

2015-07-16 Thread Tom Ritter
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 this? Do they issue certs for .example or .local > today? Not only wil

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

2015-07-16 Thread Hugo Maxwell Connery
: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard [snip] 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 size of the installed base of TOR implementations, and the implications of the

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

2015-07-15 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/15/2015 03:55 PM, David Conrad wrote: > > I'm intrigued how you derived an insult from my statement > that it was squatting. > I guess that's the proximity of "blunt" and "squatting" that gave me this impression. > > You're wrong. > I sta

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

2015-07-15 Thread Joe Hildebrand
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 size of the installed base of TOR implementations, and the implications of the use of that string in certificates

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

2015-07-15 Thread Francisco Obispo
Ok, good!. In this case all we need is something that does not encourage the creation of these names by not following published, transparent guidelines. It doesn’t feel right to me rewarding bad behavior. Thanks again. On 07/15/2015 02:22 PM, Francisco Obispo wrote: Perhaps we need a reg

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

2015-07-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On 07/15/2015 02:22 PM, Francisco Obispo wrote: Perhaps we need a registry to manage this list… IANA perhaps? with a process on how to manage it that runs in coordination between IETF and ICANN. We already have a registry, called the special-use domain names registry: http://www.iana.org/assi

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

2015-07-15 Thread Francisco Obispo
On 07/15/2015 01:11 PM, Francisco Obispo wrote: Well do they want a TLD but they don’t have the money? or don’t want a TLD? perhaps the problem is in how the TLD program treats them, in which case the answer should be on the ICANN side. As I said in the previous message, they do not want a TLD

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

2015-07-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On 07/15/2015 01:11 PM, Francisco Obispo wrote: Well do they want a TLD but they don’t have the money? or don’t want a TLD? perhaps the problem is in how the TLD program treats them, in which case the answer should be on the ICANN side. As I said in the previous message, they do not want a TLD

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

2015-07-15 Thread Francisco Obispo
This was proposed in the working group. It obviously doesn't work, first because TOR can't come up with that kind of money, but second because TOR doesn't want a TLD (hellekin's erroneous statements notwithstanding). What they want is a special-use name. A domain name does not accomplis

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

2015-07-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On 07/15/2015 12:35 PM, Francisco Obispo wrote: 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. This was proposed in the working group. It obviously do

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

2015-07-15 Thread Ted Lemon
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 Domai

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