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

[Alec Muffett <alecm@xxxxxx>]

On Aug 7, 2015, at 4:26 PM, Edward Lewis <edward.lewis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

… the documents I have access to do not give me a deep enough sense
of, well, why the names are different from DNS domain names.  I presume
they are from the email discussion, but what I am reading in the documents
- and I stress "reading in the documents" meaning that might be the gap -
doesn't give me enough background.

To address Edward’s implicit request for information - rather than to address his request for document pointers - I’d like to share that I sketched how onion addressing works in previous discussion at:

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/dnsop/current/msg13758.html

…and am happy to answer questions to the best of my ability, or punt in the right direction. 

Onion addresses may in future be >64 characters long, perhaps even >80, when new code rolls; the principles are likely invariant, however.

    -a

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Alec Muffett

Security Infrastructure

Facebook Engineering

London

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