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 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 accomplish the intended purpose, because it has to be
resolved by sending a query to a DNS server. A third objection was one
Ed raised earlier for an unrelated reason: we can't assume that the TOR
project will continue to exist as an entity that can own a delegation.
What happens when that stops? Does the Church of Anatman get to buy
the domain and start snooping on TOR connections?
A fourth objection which I don't think was raised is that this doesn't
work for .local or any of the other special-use names, and if it doesn't
work for them, it doesn't make sense to try to make it work specifically
for .onion. Why is .onion special? Should Apple or Microsoft be
asked to pay $200k to reserve the .local TLD?
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