{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mnot/I-D/issues/117","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mnot/I-D/issues/117/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mnot/I-D/issues/117/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/mnot/I-D/issues/117/events","html_url":"https://github.com/mnot/I-D/issues/117","id":88575552,"number":117,"title":"Use of \"TLD\"","user":{"login":"mnot","id":74384,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/74384?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/mnot","html_url":"https://github.com/mnot","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mnot/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mnot/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mnot/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mnot/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mnot/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mnot/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mnot/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mnot/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/mnot/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-06-16T00:27:22Z","updated_at":"2015-06-16T00:27:22Z","closed_at":null,"body":"https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/8x522tdE01T0UY6X6Dry4TuIctw\r\n\r\nThe document uses the phrase \"top-level domain\" all over the place to \r\ndescribe .onion. That phrase to me seems indelibly linked to its meaning \r\nin the context of the DNS; in the case of Tor, however, we're not \r\ntalking about the DNS at all, but rather the use of a completely \r\nseparate namespace that just happens to be syntactically equivalent to \r\nDNS names.\r\n\r\nThe purpose of the document should not be to create a top-level domain \r\nin the usual/DNS sense; rather it's to prevent such a top-level domain \r\n(i.e. a delegation from the root zone for the owner name \"onion\") from \r\never existing, since that would make things confusing for applications.\r\n\r\nI support the idea that the running code evident in the tor network \r\nshould properly trump any process or policy that would otherwise make it \r\ndifficult to make the DNS-specific recommendations on resolvers and the \r\nroot zone encapsulated here. I just think the different contexts should \r\nbe more clearly delineated."}}