[tor-bugs] #6561 [- Select a component]: File technical brief with ICANN about .onion

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#6561: File technical brief with ICANN about .onion
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 Marsh and I were discussing the need to file a technical brief with ICANN
 about our use of .onion. He suggests the root probably also sees queries
 for .onion hostnames, so they should most certainly not sell this tld to
 anyone as it would seriously harm our users (who are probably
 misconfigured).

 In an ideal world, we'd acquire .onion and use it for a PET name system
 but at the very least, we should show that it could harm us if someone
 else uses it without taking these issues into account.

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