Re: [DNSOP] Last Call: <draft-ietf-dnsop-onion-tld-00.txt> (The .onion Special-Use Domain Name) to Proposed Standard

[Edward Lewis <edward.lewis@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks.  That is indeed what I'm working on.  And yes, that description is clear and helpful and "deprecates" (in my mind) the notion that the names were too long for the DNS.

(Just wish it was that clear in a Tor document. ;) ...said for the purposes of the last call.)

On 8/7/15, 11:38, "Chris Baker" <cbaker@xxxxxxx> wrote:

 why the names are different from DNS domain names.  

I think this is where Andrew's distinction between "the DNS" and a larger concept of name space is needed. Onion names are different in that they are names for a different resolution process which uses a distributed hash table operated by the Tor network nodes instead of the root DNS servers. My apologies if this seems over simplistic.

CBaker

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