On 04/06/2017 09:13 AM, Jeremy Rand wrote:

Hi Nick!

Nick Mathewson:

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Section 2.1 and elsewhere:

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I suggest that we require all address suffixes to end with .onion; other TLDs are not reserved like .onion is, and maybe we shouldn't squat any we haven't squatted already.

FWIW it's not at all clear to me that this is a concern that IETF or ICANN will care about. Most DNS recursive servers (e.g. Unbound) allow squatting on arbitrary TLD's (this is often used for corporate systems that use internal TLD's, but we use it for Namecoin as well), and to my knowledge no one has complained to Unbound about the ability to misuse this.

Then you haven't been reading the DNSOP working group's mailing list - the IETF certainly cares. I recommend searching for ".onion", "special-use", "sutld", or "alt-tld" on their ML viewer [0] and reading the (extensive) back-history of these discussions. See below for a link to my earlier comments on this tor-dev thread [1], as well as several IETF drafts you may wish to read and comment on [2-3].

Cheers, str4d

[0] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=dnsop [1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-April/012153.html [2] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-sutld-ps-03 [3] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-08