> On Aug 7, 2015, at 4:26 PM, Edward Lewis <edward.le...@icann.org> 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 in the documents" meaning that might be the gap -
> doesn't give me enough background.

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.html 
<https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg13758.html>

…and am happy to answer questions to the best of my ability, or punt in the 
right direction.

Onion addresses may in future be >64 characters long, perhaps even >80, when 
new code rolls; the principles are likely invariant, however.

    -a

—
Alec Muffett
Security Infrastructure
Facebook Engineering
London

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