[tor-project] SponsorR March 2017 report

[George Kadianakis]

Hello,

here is the March 2017 report for SponsorR:

- Lots of progress on the implementation of the service-side of prop224:
     https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/20657
  and we also made an implementation plan for the client-side coding and
  splitted it into tickets:
     https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17242

- Wrote a blog post on the onion address UX and how to improve their usability:
     https://blog.torproject.org/blog/cooking-onions-names-your-onions

- Some more improvements to the prop224 spec:
     https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/011966.html

- Discussed possible improvements to the encoding of onion addresses to make
  them more resistant to phishing: 
     https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012030.html
     https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012029.html

- Discussed additional security verifications that might need to happen
  to onion addresses:
    https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012015.html

- Continued progress on the Name System API proposal. It's now in torspec as
  proposal 279, and it also received some more feedback on the mailing list:
     https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012077.html
     https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-March/012020.html