On Feb 3, 2014, at 7:19 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzme...@nic.fr> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:45:30AM +1100, > Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> wrote > a message of 74 lines which said: > >> The squatted tld's used by software .onion, .bit etc could be >> migrated to a new namespaces. > > :-) > > "squatted" is not a bad word here. In the physical world, squatters > are often people who do not have the money to rent a home, because > some rich people put the price of the housing too high. Here, you will > have trouble convincing the users of Tor or Namecoin that it is right > to pay 185 000 $ for a TLD and that, if they cannot afford it, they > have to stay in the slums. > > [End of political rant, sorry] Your political rant is, however, off-base. Assume for the moment that the Tor folks had registered oniontld.fr for a relatively small amount of money. It could have all of the attributes of .onion: you could hard-wire it into local resolvers, some requests for it would leak to the DNS and therefore possibly be trackable, and so on. For the purposes given in draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names, unsquatted FQDNs would work just as well as squatted TLDs. --Paul Hoffman _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
