On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 6:12 PM, Andrew Sullivan <a...@anvilwalrusden.com> wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:16:37PM +0000, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > >> I realized after uploading that I hadn't sent this along for discussion. > >> > Name: draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld > > I've read this draft. I have a few comments. > > To begin with, in general I think this document is on the right path > and something very close to it should be published.
+1. This is useful. W > It's > narrowly-focussed, I _think_ it meets the template requirements of RFC > 6761 (but see a remark below). It's clearly a technical distinction, > because this approach is a backward-compatible user interface > namespace without any real DNS vestige at all: it's not intended to be > a general-purpose identifier system on the Internet, but rather as I > understand it a cryptographic identifier in the Tor network. > > I have a couple nits: > > In section 1, it'd probably be useful to pick up the term "domain name > slot" that was introduced by RFC 5890. This is not an i18n case, of > course, but that's sort of the point: this is an example of something > that more or less fits in places people already use ordinary DNS > domain names, but this name is special and actually not in the DNS as > it shows up in the domain name slot. > > In section 4, 3-5, what if a "synthetic" NXDOMAIN gets generated and > cached? Will that have any effect on .onion resolution? If this is > explained in detail in some thing I've failed to follow, a simple > reference would be enough. > > Best regards, > > A > > -- > Andrew Sullivan > a...@anvilwalrusden.com > > _______________________________________________ > DNSOP mailing list > DNSOP@ietf.org > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop -- I don't think the execution is relevant when it was obviously a bad idea in the first place. This is like putting rabid weasels in your pants, and later expressing regret at having chosen those particular rabid weasels and that pair of pants. ---maf _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
