On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 3:24 PM, The IESG <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
The IESG has received a request from the Domain Name System Operations WG
(dnsop) to consider the following document:
- 'The .onion Special-Use Domain Name'
<draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt> as Proposed Standard
The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
ietf@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2015-08-11. Exceptionally, comments may be
sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the
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Abstract
This document uses the Special-Use Domain Names registry to register the
'.onion' Top Level Domain (TLD) for the Tor Network. This is deemed necessary
for hosts on the ToR network to apply for and receive legitimate SSL Certificates.
The file can be obtained via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld/
IESG discussion can be tracked via
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld/ballot/
(Speaking for myself)
I support this document. This seems to be one of the cases that the special use registry should be used for.
I would note that the SSL cert is incorrect for the https://www.onion-router.net/Publications/tor-design.pdf link, so it would be good if either the cert or the URL could be corrected. (Cert is for the name torproject.org and *.torproject.org)