[tor-talk] ICANN and .onion

[Lunar]

Anders Andersson:
> A few years ago, ICANN started to accept suggestions for new top-level
> domain names. A friend recently posted a .onion link to me, and it made me
> realize that there might be a big problem if a company or organization
> other than Tor actually registered .onion and made it work in any browser.
> 
> 1) Has there been any discussions regarding the severity of the problem if
> it should eventually happen? If so, are the discussions or the result of
> them available online for reading?
> 
> 2) Has Tor applied to ICANN about the .onion domain, or discussed the pro
> and con of doing this?

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2013-November/005747.html

The document actually expired yesterday:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-02

The last call for review on DNSOP has seen no reaction:
https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg11364.html

I am not familiar enough of IETF processes to know what that means.

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Lunar                                             <lunar at torproject.org>
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