[anti-censorship-team] TorCloak Pluggable Transport

[Diogo Barradas]

Hi Roger,

Thank you for the kind words and for your comments regarding the name
of our project! 

This makes total sense and we’ll work towards finding a new name
for our pluggable transport before we get it deployed (hopefully soon!).

Best,
Diogo 
(on behalf of our team)

> On Sep 1, 2022, at 19:45, Roger Dingledine <arma at torproject.org> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 05:30:23PM +0000, Diogo Barradas wrote:
>> Thank you again for all the details and suggestions!
>> 
>> We???ll keep you posted on our advances and work towards
>> integrating TorCloak with Tor in the near future.
> 
> Hi Diogo!
> 
> Great to hear from you and great to hear that you're working in
> the "deploying pluggable transports" space.
> 
> (Wearing my Tor comms team hat) Hopefully this is the perfect time to
> bring up the name topic: everybody starts off by naming their thing
> TorSomething, but we try to discourage names of that form: in practice
> these names confuse users and the community about who made the thing,
> whether it's "official", where to turn for support, etc.
> 
> This is why the other Tor pluggable transports aren't named TorObfuscator,
> TorRTC, TorFront, TorTunnel, etc.
> 
> See more details about how we hope names will work here:
> https://www.torproject.org/about/trademark/#trademark-faq-4
> 
> In particular, we think it's fine to use TorFoo in a research paper
> title, because those don't confuse users about software; but once there
> is software for users (and it sounds like you're heading that way, which
> is great!) then usually there comes a point where you wish in retrospect
> you had picked a more unique name. :)
> 
> Thanks!
> --Roger
>