On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Alec Muffett <al...@fb.com> wrote: > > Hi, I'm Alec, and I am co-author of the Onion RFC draft with Jacob Appelbaum. > > Reports of the bogging-down have been greatly exaggerated, and I wish people > would stop repeating them. > > The status of the Onion RFC draft is viewable at: > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld/ > > ...and this afternoon I created some amendments to the draft to address IETF > and IANA concerns, and have circulated them amongst the team (me, Jake, Mark) > to see if I've goofed. > > We will merge them, soon, in good time for the next review. > > In the most recent review IANA in particular were very helpful, offering to > rewrite some of their stuff in order to make it abundantly clear to > CA/B-Forum that: > > 1) onion will be a special case > 2) onion should never be delegated > 3) but nonetheless SSL certificates should be issued for it > > ...which proactively addresses a concern from a few months back re: whether > CA/B-Forum would nitpick a "Special Use" designation. > > TL;DR - we are not past the finish line yet, and there is work to be done and > challenge, but we're not down nor are we out. > -- > Alec Muffett > Security Infrastructure > Facebook Engineering > London
Just wanted to thank you for this work, I hope you succeed! / Anders -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
