The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The .onion Special-Use Domain Name' (draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-01.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Domain Name System Operations Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Benoit Claise and Joel Jaeggli. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld/ Technical Summary This document uses the Special-Use Domain Names registry to register the '.onion' Top Level Domain (TLD) for the Tor Network. This will allow hosts on the ToR network to apply for and receive legitimate SSL Certificates. Working Group Summary During the Working Group process, there was contention from several parties who were unaware that the charter of DNSOP was updated to reflect issues surrounding [RFC6761]. Once that was cleared up, there was several discussions that no addition to the Special-Use Domain Name registry could happen until an overhaul of [RFC6751] occurred. In the case of this draft, it was decided to move forward with the current conditions. Document Quality The draft is a few pages long, long enough to create a registration template for '.onion' to be added to the Special-Use Registry. The Document Quality is quite reasonable. Several Experts in the area of DNS and Domain Names reviewed the document and found it suitable to move forward. Personnel The Document Shepherd is Tim Wicinski. The Responsible Area Director is Joel Jaggeli.
