[TWN team] Recent changes to the wiki pages

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- 1. Internet standards body reserves .onion as a Special-Use Domain Name
+ 1. IETF reserves .onion as a Special-Use Domain Name
  2. Tor proposal updates
  3. Miscellaneous news
  4. Upcoming events
 
-Internet standards body reserves .onion as a Special-Use Domain Name
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+IETF reserves .onion as a Special-Use Domain Name
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 Several years of effort by Tor Project members and contributors bore
 fruit this week when the Internet Engineering Task Force, which develops

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- 1. XXX
- 2. XXX
+ 1. Internet standards body reserves .onion as a Special-Use Domain Name
+ 2. Tor proposal updates
+ 3. Miscellaneous news
+ 4. Upcoming events
 
-Feature XXX
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+Internet standards body reserves .onion as a Special-Use Domain Name
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-Feature 1 with cited source [XXX]
+Several years of effort by Tor Project members and contributors bore
+fruit this week when the Internet Engineering Task Force, which develops
+and promotes voluntary standards for Internet technologies, recognized
+the .onion suffix as a special-use domain name [XXX].
 
- [XXX]:
+As Jacob Appelbaum, who led the charge along with Facebook security
+engineer Alec Muffett, explained: “IETF name reservations are part of a
+lesser known process that ensures a registered Special-Use Domain Name
+will not become a Top Level Domain (TLD) to be sold by the Internet
+Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).” In other words, it
+will not be possible for domain registrars to sell web addresses ending
+in .onion; if it were, it would create problems for Tor’s hidden service
+system, which uses that suffix to allow users to run anonymous and
+censorship-resistant web services accessible via the Tor Browser.
+
+Another benefit of the name reservation is that it will now be possible
+to buy Extended Validation (EV) SSL certificates for .onion domains, a
+system which Facebook has trialled on its own popular hidden
+service [XXX].
+
+“We think that this is a small and important landmark in the movement to
+build privacy into the structure of the Internet”, wrote Jacob.
+Congratulations to all those who spent time drafting this proposal and
+advocating for its adoption.
+
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/landmark-hidden-services-onion-names-reserved-ietf
+ [XXX]: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/facebook-hidden-services-and-https-certs
+
+Tor proposal updates
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+
+Tor’s body of development proposals, documents that plan for
+improvements and changes in Tor’s software ecosystem, has seen some
+additions, updates, and reviews over the past week.
+
+Nick Mathewson published proposal 256 [XXX], which examines methods for
+revoking the long-lived public keys used by Tor relays and directory
+authorities in the event that they are compromised, or the operator
+believes there is a significant possibility that they have been
+compromised. Andrea Shepard wrote proposal 258 [XXX], explaining how
+directory authorities could mitigate the risk of denial-of-service (DOS)
+attacks by classifying the types of directory requests they receive and
+setting thresholds for each. Nick and Andrea together published proposal
+257 [XXX], which identifies the different functions performed by
+directory authorities and examines how the risk of DOS attacks could be
+reduced by “isolating the security-critical, high-resource, and
+availability-critical pieces of our directory infrastructure from one
+another”.
+
+George Kadianakis published a review [XXX] of all the open proposals
+relevant to next-generation hidden services, giving a summary of each
+one along with its current status, “so that researchers and developers
+have easier access to them”.
+
+Proposal 250, which specifies how directory authorities can come up with
+a shared random value every day, and which George describes as “a
+prerequisite” for all other work on next-gen hidden services, was itself
+updated to reflect changes in the implementation, which is almost
+finished, as David Goulet explained [XXX]. Finally, Tim Wilson-Brown
+(teor) published a revised version [XXX] of the as-yet unnumbered
+proposal for “rendevous single onion services”, “an alternative design
+for single onion services, which trade service-side location privacy for
+improved performance, reliability, and scalability”.
+
+If you have any comments on these or other Tor proposals, feel free to
+post your thoughts to the tor-dev mailing list.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-October/009798.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-October/009821.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-October/009799.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-October/009762.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-October/009812.html
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-October/009763.html
 
 Miscellaneous news
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-Item 1 with cited source [XXX].
+The Tor BSD Diversity Project [XXX], “an effort to extend the use of the
+BSD Unixes into the Tor ecosystem, from the desktop to the network”,
+announced [XXX] the release of an OpenBSD port of Tor Browser 5.0.3, its
+sixth Tor Browser release for BSD systems. See attila’s announcement for
+download instructions, as well as a report on the TDP’s other
+development and advocacy activities.
 
-Item 2 with cited source [XXX].
+ [XXX]: https://torbsd.github.io/
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-October/009800.html
 
-Item 3 with cited source [XXX].
+Tor’s Metrics team, “a group of Tor people who care about measuring and
+analyzing things in the public Tor network”, now has its own public
+mailing list and wiki page, as Karsten Loesing announced [XXX]. There
+is a simple step to complete before you can post freely to the list, but
+anyone interested in “measurements and analysis” is welcome to listen in
+on discussions, and to check the team’s roadmap and workflow on the wiki
+page.
 
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
- [XXX]:
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-October/009808.html
+
+“In an attempt to make Pluggable Transports more accessible to other
+people, and to have a spec that is more applicable and useful to other
+projects that seek to use Pluggable Transports for circumvention”,
+Yawning Angel drafted a rewrite of the pluggable transports spec
+document [XXX]. No behavior changes are specified in this rewrite, but
+“unless people have serious objections, this will replace the existing
+PT spec, to serve as a stop-gap while the next revision of the PT spec
+(that does alter behavior) is being drafted/implemented”.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-October/009815.html
+
+Simone Bassano published a report [XXX] on the OONI hackathon that took
+place in Rome at the start of October. A working beta version of
+MeasurementKit and progress on NetworkMeter, as well as ways to make use
+of censorship data, were among the outcomes.
+
+ [XXX]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/ooni-dev/2015-October/000353.html
 
 Upcoming events
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