Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-15 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/14/2015 11:37 PM, David Conrad wrote: > > To put it bluntly, from a certain perspective, 6762 and > dnsop-onion are essentially about the same thing: they are > formalizing squatting on namespace (by Apple in the first > instance and by TOR in

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-15 Thread hellekin
On 07/15/2015 09:42 AM, Edward Lewis wrote: > > The document defines the use of the name by referring to a couple of > references, none of which appears to be published in a way that can be > referenced except by URL. > I agree that the URL could be use more foresight, e.g. https://torproject.org

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-15 Thread hellekin
On 07/15/2015 03:46 PM, Edward Lewis wrote: > > What if I copied the onion draft, changed all of the uses of onion to > carrot, and then threw in some supporting documents to describe some > other system that used carrot as it's base identifier? On the heels > of onion's admission to the Special

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-15 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/15/2015 03:55 PM, David Conrad wrote: > > I'm intrigued how you derived an insult from my statement > that it was squatting. > I guess that's the proximity of "blunt" and "squatting" that gave me this impression. > > You're wrong. > I sta

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/17/2015 07:07 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 11:39:24PM -0700, Paul Vixie wrote: >> we only need one cutout, something like .external, with an >> IANA-maintained registry of non-dns uses, each pointing to an RFC >> that de

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/17/2015 11:20 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: > I have no particular objection to the concept here, but I do have a > question about one sentence in the draft. Section 1 states: >>Like Top-Level Domain Names, .onion addresses can have an >>arbit

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/17/2015 11:32 AM, David Conrad wrote: > > No. .LOCAL was not already in the root zone. .FOO is. > *** Therefore the .FOO label is not available for Special-Use anymore, end of story. A Special-Use name cannot be an already registered name in the root zone. If you referring to e.g., .corp t

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/17/2015 12:17 PM, Eliot Lear wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Eliot Lear wrote: >>> I have no particular objection to the concept here, but I do have a >>> question about one sentence in the draft. Section 1 states: Like Top-Level Domain Names, .onion addresses can have an

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/17/2015 02:57 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > i would argue, by the way, that "onion" is a kind of technology, onion > routing, of which Tor is the first and best-known but not the last. so, > i'll prefer .tor.external over .onion.external. > > [snip] > > compared to alt, yes. note that .external

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/17/2015 03:10 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > i apologize for the lack of a pre-existing syntactic framework into > which tor's names could have been encapsulated from the outset. i > apologize even more for the fact that tor's perfectly reasonable request > for .onion is now causing this working

Re: [DNSOP] Tor frustration

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/17/2015 10:39 PM, Ralf Weber wrote: > > Am I right that there is leakage of dns requests with > .onion TLDs? If so isn't that a bug in their software? > *** Almost: 1) .onion is not a TLD (sorry, I made the mistake myself to abuse TLD, although I had defined pTLD for that purpose--as in: p

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-17 Thread hellekin
On 07/17/2015 10:41 PM, John Levine wrote: > > A mechanical criterion might be "observable traffic from at least > 100,000 different IP addresses every day for at least 30 days." > That'd be a horrible criterion, not least because it's easy > for a modestly well funded adversary to fake. > *** Al

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-07-20 Thread hellekin
On 07/20/2015 10:34 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: > So... Alec and I did a bit of wordsmithing and what I propose is a > slight clarification on the existing text, based on this exchange, and > here it is: > > >Like Top-Level Domain Names, .onion addresses can have an arbitrary >number of subdoma

Re: [DNSOP] [Gen-art] review: draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00

2015-07-20 Thread hellekin
kely that tor-address also ought to be a normative >> reference. >> >> Minor issues: It is not clear that a github reference without version >> identification is sufficiently stable for a normative reference from an RFC. > > Hi Joel, > > hellekin started a dis

Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

2015-08-10 Thread hellekin
On 08/10/2015 01:50 PM, Ted Hardie wrote: > ​ > It does a fine job with .example since that's fundamentally > just a reservation, but .onion is showing its warts. > Hi Ted, I fully agree with Alec, and do not understand how .onion would differ from .example in that case, especially since as we're

Re: [DNSOP] a long way from reservations on reservations, was Barry Leiba's Abstain

2015-09-01 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/01/2015 07:39 PM, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > > Tor doesn't leak .onions > > If the name is reserved and the process is followed, we'll hopefully > be able to stop most of the leakage in the DNS. > One clear example that was documented earlier

Re: [DNSOP] Benoit Claise's No Objection on draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00: (with COMMENT)

2015-09-03 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/03/2015 06:00 AM, Benoit Claise wrote: > > If/Once [tor-rendezvous] is a normative reference, do we consider > github as stable enough? What if that link disappears? > Github is not involved at all in any of the references of the .onion draf

Re: [DNSOP] Jari Arkko's No Record on draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00: (with COMMENT)

2015-09-03 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/03/2015 11:36 AM, Joel Halpern wrote: > Actually, DownRef won't cut it as far as I can tell. > > The two documents are not stable. As a github reference, > they are simply "the most current version of foo". > Come on, GitHub is a corporatio

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-01.txt

2015-09-09 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/09/2015 05:14 AM, internet-dra...@ietf.org wrote: > > The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld/ > I welcome the new draft. I must have missed the discussion for this pa

Re: [DNSOP] draft-lewis-domain-names-00.txt

2015-09-21 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/21/2015 11:50 AM, Edward Lewis wrote: > > I think defining -whether- name.onion is a Domain Name will make us > re-think how Domain Names interoperate amongst protocols beyond the DN S. > Agreed, but why limit to .onion? Can your example str

Re: [DNSOP] update to the WG: moving forward on RFC 6761 review

2015-10-15 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/08/2015 11:56 PM, Suzanne Woolf wrote: > > We would like the Design Team to be slightly larger, so are looking > for 1-2 additional volunteers. Please let the chairs know if you're > willing to be part of this work. > Hello, I sent you my wi

Re: [DNSOP] 6761bis Design Team Lead

2015-11-09 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/04/2015 03:26 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Sun, Nov 01, 2015 at 03:06:04AM -0500, > Warren Kumari wrote > a message of 28 lines which said: > >> The chairs also asked for volunteers for the design team on October >> 8th; a number of

Re: [DNSOP] Some thoughts on special-use names, from an application standpoint

2015-11-26 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/26/2015 06:38 AM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > > Given this context, I was disturbed to hear the design team presentati on > in Yokohama > So you mean there's an already working team on the revision of RFC6761, and that team had the time to prepa

Re: [DNSOP] ARCING BoF and mailing list

2016-02-22 Thread hellekin
On 01/28/2016 05:38 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Suzanne: Since you are one of the BoF initiators here, maybe you can > clarify a few things. > > - How does this relate to the other DNSOP work in this area such as .alt? > > - Does this change the work of the 6761bis design team? > > - How is it rel

Re: [DNSOP] update on work item regarding special use names (RFC 6761)

2016-02-22 Thread hellekin
On 02/12/2016 01:48 AM, Suzanne Woolf wrote: > > http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-adpkja-dnsop-special-names-problem/ > Hello, This ID seems to require the definition of a new registry, and Section 6 to suggest how this would be used. I think this goes way beyond what needs to be done in o

Re: [DNSOP] On the call for adoption on Special Use Names (Please! Pretty please, with a cherry on top?!)

2016-09-21 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/20/2016 01:33 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > > And I'm still not convinced there is a problem to solve > (unless the real issue is "how to prevent the registration of .gnu and > .bit?") > Even if I supported the SUDN of P2P systems draft me

Re: [DNSOP] moving forward on special use names

2016-09-21 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 09/20/2016 08:57 AM, Suzanne Woolf wrote: > > In a real sense the question at hand is a very practical one: > “Which of these documents do you think needs less work?" > Having read both drafts, and from the perspective of "Names resolved * with

Re: [DNSOP] On the call for adoption on Special Use Names (Please! Pretty please, with a cherry on top?!)

2016-09-22 Thread hellekin
On 09/22/2016 12:31 AM, George Michaelson wrote: > > what community burden is taken in the wide, if a new TLD is > allocated in 6761 to break out of the DNS. > I'm sorry but, what do you mean 'to break out of the DNS'? == hk ___ DNSOP mailing list DNSO

Re: [DNSOP] On the call for adoption on Special Use Names (Please! Pretty please, with a cherry on top?!)

2016-09-22 Thread hellekin
On 09/21/2016 11:30 PM, George Michaelson wrote: > None of these named spaces would "fail" to work as sub-spaces of .ALT > or .arpa or any other community-led IETF tech community managed label. > All of them with a requirement for global uniqueness will fail with .ALT, per .ALT draft. Etc. > yo

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-05.txt

2016-09-25 Thread hellekin
On 09/12/2016 11:57 AM, internet-dra...@ietf.org wrote: > > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > This draft is a work item of the Domain Name System Operations of the IETF. > > Title : The ALT Special Use Top Level Domain >

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-alt-tld-05.txt

2016-09-27 Thread hellekin
On 09/27/2016 02:37 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: > > My opinion really doesn't matter, but I happen to think that, at this > point, we should evaluate the requested P2P names according to RFC > 6761 -- you followed the process in effect *at the time*, and jumped > through many hoops. The process is f

Re: [DNSOP] Tell me about the ISO 3166 user assigned two-letter codes and TLDs

2016-09-29 Thread hellekin
On 09/29/2016 05:42 AM, Edward Lewis wrote: > > The one option you have is ".example", unfortunately (and in sympathy) > I don't have a better suggestion. > .example is for documentation. You can use .invalid for "fake private TLD", which makes it very clear that it's not a valid TLD. (Sorry

Re: [DNSOP] On the call for adoption on Special Use Names (Please! Pretty please, with a cherry on top?!)

2016-09-30 Thread hellekin
On 09/30/2016 01:03 AM, George Michaelson wrote: > Thats precisely why its NOT a false analogy: the design model in the > IETF is that the value doesn't matter, but in the DNS, the design > model is "follow the money" > > [snip] > > If they see inherent value in the string, then they immediately wa

Re: [DNSOP] On the call for adoption on Special Use Names (Please! Pretty please, with a cherry on top?!)

2016-10-02 Thread hellekin
On 10/01/2016 07:12 PM, Paul Wouters wrote: > > the IETF doesn't have the money for lawyers in that arena. > > [snip] > > I do not think the IETF should create "Special Names" that conflict > with the naming process which has been delegated to ICANN. > > [snip] > > The IETF giving them .onion in

Re: [DNSOP] In a vacuum, nobody can hear you scream, was On the call for adoption on Special Use Names

2016-10-06 Thread hellekin
On 10/06/2016 09:22 AM, avri doria wrote: > > As for the so-called toxic waste names (i really find that terminology > problematic) > I agree it's a problem to use that kind of vocabulary to convey a technical context. > the so called waste pile of usurped names > Therefore this is also a probl

Re: [DNSOP] In a vacuum, nobody can hear you scream, was On the call for adoption on Special Use Names

2016-10-07 Thread hellekin
On 10/07/2016 06:36 PM, Alain Durand wrote: > > However, there is something that can be done before: provide a safe place > in the DNS tree where people can exist without colliding with the rest of > the tree. We can't prevent people from ignoring it and keep using whatever > name they want, but a

Re: [DNSOP] Special Use Names Summary

2016-10-13 Thread hellekin
On 10/07/2016 08:56 PM, Tim Wicinski wrote: > > Special Use Names Summary > Hello DNSOP WG, I let a week pass so that others can comment, but apparently this summary didn't bring much of them. Indeed I have a troubling issue with it: how is that actionable? IOW, what's next? Thank you, == hk

[DNSOP] draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-02

2014-03-06 Thread hellekin
LDs), reserved for special use. The following six domains relate to security-focused peer-to-peer systems. They are: ".gnu", ".zkey", ".onion", ".exit", ".i2p", and ".bit". * Thank you for your attention and consideratio

Re: [DNSOP] Workshop on DNS Future Root Service Architecture, Hong Kong, December 8-9, 2014 (SAVE THE DATE)

2014-10-28 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 10/28/2014 05:07 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: > Registration will open shortly for the Workshop on DNS Future Root > Service Architecture. > >> Location: Hong Kong, HK >> Date: December 8-9, 2014 >> Hosted by: ISOC-HK >> Sponsors: ZDNS/BII and CNNIC >>

Re: [DNSOP] Draft on censorship, and DNS

2014-11-09 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 11/09/2014 06:35 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > > If you want to do anything useful in counter-censorship then you have > to think of using steganography > *** If you use steganography, that probably means you're sending secrets over a cleart

[DNSOP] P2PNames Draft 03 Released

2014-12-25 Thread hellekin
, Namecoin, and Tor - - Remove alternate (confusing) use of dot-tld notation - - Add Leif Ryge as author - - Integrate community feedback If you're tweeting, you're welcome to circulate https://twitter.com/hellekin/status/548082724980797440 and the #P2PNames hashtag. Thank you for

Re: [DNSOP] draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-03

2015-01-05 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/05/2015 02:44 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > I have read draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-03. I have some > comments. > *** Thank you Andrew for taking the time to review this draft. We shall take your suggestions

Re: [DNSOP] draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-03

2015-01-05 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/05/2015 03:25 PM, David Conrad wrote: > > I think you missed Andrew's point. > *** Thank you David for shedding some light. > All 6 technologies use a string that looks like a domain name > but isn't intended for use in the DNS. Why does it

Re: [DNSOP] identifying an identifier's name space was Re: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-03

2015-01-06 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/06/2015 09:42 PM, Rubens Kuhl wrote: > > Which perhaps suggests an W3C approach instead of an IETF one ? > httpoo://(ToR identifier) (oo for "over onion", although it makes a curious > acronym) > httpob://(name coin address) > *** Our draf

Re: [DNSOP] identifying an identifier's name space was Re: draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-03

2015-01-06 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/07/2015 12:38 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > Some of these proposals are in fact using names in domain name slots > as ways of indicating that the protocol itself ought to be > different. The hint a name below onion is giving is, "Not really t

[DNSOP] P2PNames Draft 04: we're adding MORECOWBELL

2015-01-24 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear list members, today the French newspaper Le Monde published information on a secret NSA program, MORECOWBELL [0], that reveals the agency has been using the DNS infrastructure to monitor host and website activity across the Internet. This moni

Re: [DNSOP] Complying with draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names

2015-01-25 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 01/25/2015 09:01 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > > get the IETF to recommend to IANA that these names be reserved > *** Yes indeed. Can we get back to the draft-04? It sure will bring up some interesting if not controversial comments, as some parts cha

Re: [DNSOP] Updating the DNS Registration Model to Keep Pace with Today’s Internet

2015-02-05 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/05/2015 07:59 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: >> >> But be careful. There be dragons here. Computers updating computers to cont >> rol who controls the domains? > > Computers update computers all the time. It's about establishing > the right contro

Re: [DNSOP] Strong objection to draft-wkumari-dnsop-alt-tld-04

2015-02-15 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 02/15/15 21:00, Warren Kumari wrote: > > draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-04, Section 3 (Terminology > and Conventions Used in This Document): > "The abbreviation "pTLD" is used in this document to mean a pseudo > Top-Level Domain, i.e.,

Re: [DNSOP] discussion for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt

2015-03-16 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/16/15 22:14, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Mon, 16 Mar 2015, Jacob Appelbaum wrote: > >> Subject: [DNSOP] discussion for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt > > Is this meant to replace or augment > draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names ? >

Re: [DNSOP] discussion for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt

2015-03-16 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/16/15 23:20, Paul Wouters wrote: > > It seems odd that two documents would be requesting an IANA action for > ".onion" ? > *** Well yes, it sounds like a mistake to me. But we can also consider it a god-given gift for people who argued agains

Re: [DNSOP] discussion for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt

2015-03-17 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/17/15 12:58, David Conrad wrote: > > I doubt arguments of this nature are particular helpful. > *** I feel obliged to reflect this to you. > My personal observation is that one of the problems with your draft > *** Maybe you should direct com

Re: [DNSOP] discussion for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt

2015-03-17 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/17/15 18:28, David Conrad wrote: > > What benefit does tying a bunch of unrelated strings together bring > in arguing for Special Name status? > *** I know you already replied that you already commented the P2PNames draft, but frankly my resp

Re: [DNSOP] RFC 6761 discussion (“special names”)

2015-03-17 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/17/15 18:39, Tim Wicinski wrote: > > the implications of widening use of RFC 6761. > *** You certainly mean: the implications of using RFC 6761, given that so far, it's only been used by its creator, Apple Inc. in RFC 6762 (if 6761 itself is n

Re: [DNSOP] discussion for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt

2015-03-17 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/17/15 19:10, Ted Lemon wrote: > > The problem is that there is more than one such string, and consensus depends on > the least popular string listed. > *** RFC 6761 reserves multiple in-addr.arpa. domains, example under three TLDs, plus .test.

Re: [DNSOP] RFC 6761 discussion (“special names”)

2015-03-17 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > > Do you have feedback on the idea of an interim meeting for DNSOP to address > these drafts in more depth > *** Thank you Suzanne for your clarification. My only feedback is that such meeting is very welcome. I hope the discussion will be frui

Re: [DNSOP] RFC 6761 discussion (“special names”)

2015-03-18 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/18/15 08:01, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: > > Following this discussion from a distance, I cannot help wondering > whether this is special names stuff might in violate RFC 2860 section 4.3. > *** Assignment of special names belongs to "assignment of

Re: [DNSOP] discussion for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt

2015-03-24 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/23/15 10:31, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > if somehow the onion name leaked and ended up in the DNS, it's not a > big deal > *** Well, although you're right as far as *applications* are concerned, this is still a big deal because humans are using

Re: [DNSOP] discussion for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt

2015-03-24 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 03/24/15 20:03, Alec Muffett wrote: > Hi Hellekin! > > I would agree that leak avoidance is “a major” rather than “the prime” > point of having .onion reserved as a TLD. > *** Agreed. I came from the privacy side of the argumen

Re: [DNSOP] Interim DNSOP WG meeting on Special Use Names: some reading material

2015-05-07 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/07/2015 10:56 AM, Livingood, Jason wrote: > > Beyond that, does it end up being a cheap way to avoid the ICANN > process > *** It makes sense to follow that process for systems that use the DNS, not for Special-Use Domain Names. If you would

Re: [DNSOP] Interim DNSOP WG meeting on Special Use Names: some reading material

2015-05-07 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/06/2015 03:07 PM, Suzanne Woolf wrote: > > Logistics details will follow shortly, but we have a webex URL > *** As far as I understand, WebEx requires non-free software to work, which is a problem that will certainly make my participation mor

[DNSOP] Upcoming P2PNames draft

2015-05-07 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 The authors of draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names are about to release a new version of the P2PNames draft that integrates the comments we've received from the P2P systems community. Unfortunately, the previous draft didn't receive much atten

Re: [DNSOP] Upcoming P2PNames draft

2015-05-07 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/07/2015 03:25 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > > *** Thank you Paul for your note. It's really appreciated. The fact the P2PNames draft does not mention dnsop is because the process suggests that RFC6761 requests belong to IESG. Regards, == hk -

Re: [DNSOP] Interim DNSOP WG meeting on Special Use Names: some reading material

2015-05-08 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/08/2015 01:48 PM, David Conrad wrote: > Mark, > >> "home", "corp" and perhaps "mail" need special handling if we really >> want to not cause problems for those using those tlds internally. > > Why? > *** Citing IETF92 slides by Lyman Chapin

[DNSOP] A comparison of IANA Considerations for .onion

2015-05-11 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Since Alec Muffett seems to have better things to do, I feel obligated to do what he should have done before publishing his draft: comparing the IANA Considerations for .onion in the draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-04 (P2PNames) and draft-a

Re: [DNSOP] A comparison of IANA Considerations for .onion

2015-05-11 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/11/2015 08:21 PM, Alec Muffett wrote: > > This might be an issue so long as your threat model includes blindly > unaware users who are typing ".onion" addresses into non-Tor-capable > browsers in the (presumably first-time) expectation that it

Re: [DNSOP] A comparison of IANA Considerations for .onion

2015-05-11 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/12/2015 03:12 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: > > ... both Firefox... > One of them - the Tor Browser - is using a SOCKS daemon which knows > that “.onion” is special and shouldn’t be looked up in the public DNS. > *** So in my understanding of the s

Re: [DNSOP] A comparison of IANA Considerations for .onion

2015-05-12 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/12/2015 04:18 AM, Alec Muffett wrote: >> On May 12, 2015, at 7:44 AM, hellekin wrote: >> >> *** So in my understanding of the scope boundaries of RFC6761 IANA >> considerations, which seems to be the main difference be

Re: [DNSOP] A comparison of IANA Considerations for .onion

2015-05-12 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/12/2015 09:23 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > Is your complaint that appelbaum-dnsop-onion reads to you as though > such special applications are the only way to do this? If so, then > you're right that it needs adjustment. > *** Yes, my conc

Re: [DNSOP] Interim DNSOP WG meeting on Special Use Names: some reading material

2015-05-12 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 How does one join the meeting with XMPP? I confirm that the WebEx software is not compatible with my OS. == hk -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJVUiIFXxSAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1

Re: [DNSOP] Interim DNSOP WG meeting on Special Use Names: some reading material

2015-05-13 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/13/2015 03:05 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > we should not be poaching on turf already handed to someone else. > Managing top-level domains that are intended to be looked up in the > DNS -- even if people expect them to be part of a "local root"

Re: [DNSOP] Interim DNSOP WG meeting on Special Use Names: some reading material

2015-05-13 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/13/2015 05:51 PM, John Levine wrote: > > which means that ICANN is sitting on $3.7 million in > application fees which they will presumably have to refund, as well as > five withdrawn applications from parties who got partial refunds and > woul

Re: [DNSOP] Post-Interim considering the 4 proposals

2015-05-15 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/15/2015 08:28 AM, Hugo Maxwell Connery wrote: > Hi, > *** Thank you for this report. I hope to read the minutes soon. * I note that you omitted to mention Namecoin and the .BIT pTLD. * You wrote, referring to overlay networks: "Their reluc

Re: [DNSOP] Adoption and Working Group Last Call for draft-appelbaum-dnsop-onion-tld

2015-05-21 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 05/21/2015 04:21 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: > > It would make sense to call it a reserved special-use top-level domain name. > It's not a top-level domain in the DNS, though. > I think that's the distinction to make. > *** A distinction that the P2PN

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt

2015-06-21 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/20/2015 03:12 PM, internet-dra...@ietf.org wrote: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld/ > *** 2.3 has a repeat "either". 2.6 reads correctly, but the more important reason IMO is the risk of privacy leak for the use

Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt

2015-06-22 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 06/22/2015 04:21 PM, Tim Wicinski wrote: > > While I understand why you feel 2.6 should contain information about > user's privacy, it currently seems to meet the requirements for > [RFC6761]. > *** I consider important that readers keep the prim

Re: [DNSOP] More after onion? was Re: Some distinctions and a request

2015-07-02 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/02/2015 10:05 AM, Edward Lewis wrote: > > You're right. To underscore, it's because of the groups that > don't engage, and have no responsibility to do so, that the IETF > has to "defend" itself. > >> It wouldn't take much work > > Keep in

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-07 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/07/2015 08:00 PM, Alain Durand wrote: >> >> o Does the IETF have a process for moving a name from subset 2 to >> subset 4? > > what is needed is a process that is less ambiguous and simpler to > evaluate than RFC6761 to reserve strings in sub

Re: [DNSOP] perspective Re: Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-09 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/08/2015 08:36 AM, Suzanne Woolf wrote: > > It further seems to me that an attempt to list names that are > currently in the public root zone or might someday be in the public > root zone has a high risk of being simply backwards if the purpose

Re: [DNSOP] perspective Re: Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-09 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/08/2015 02:33 PM, Edward Lewis wrote: > > But I keep coming to this, decidedly non-engineering, question: What > if someone uses RFC 6761 to get an offensive name registered as a > special-use domain name? > TL;DR: you cannot avoid subjecti

Re: [DNSOP] Thoughts on the top level name space

2015-07-09 Thread hellekin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/09/2015 12:53 PM, Alain Durand wrote: > I don't think I can make it to Prague, > Here is a short list: > > - RFC6761 does not say anything wrt to coordination between IETF and I CANN > on this topic. > How did the RFC6761 reservations happ