[tor-onions] Renaming Rendezvous Single Onion Services

[Alec Muffett]

Single* Hop Onion Services (*singleness not guaranteed)

In general: stay away from qualitative or policy-based like
hidden/public/secret/private, they only cause a problem later.

Stick to descriptive terms.

    - alec
On 23 Feb 2016 3:14 a.m., "Paul Syverson" <paul.syverson at nrl.navy.mil>
wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 01:17:42PM +1100, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > It looks like Rendezvous Single Onion Services may not make it into tor
> before the 0.2.8 code freeze in a few days' time.
> >
> > One of the blocking issues is that it needs to be renamed.
> >
> > Nick said on IRC:
> > "RSOS is not really intelligible in the same way that Hidden Service
> was."
> > "I want to make really sure that nobody configures this without
> > realizing it's not anonymous"
>
> So every name's a problem. I think "Hidden Service" was a bad name in
> hindsight in that it focused only on the location hiding and not on
> the provided authentication, and worse, it facilitated stupid pundits
> coining the misleading "Dark Web". That's why I like names like
> "Single-Onion Service" and "Double-Onion Service" that describe the
> technology not what it provides (which can also become a misnomer if
> other features of the service become prominent in use).
>
> If you want to underscore in the name specifically the not-hidden
> property, then I suggest the best would be 'Rendezvous Located-Onion
> Service'. And Single Onion Service, would be 'Located-Onion Service'.
>
> I think focusing in the name on such aspects is a really bad idea, but
> I offer this suggestion in case it is going to happen no matter what I
> think.
>
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> > I'm out of names (and soon to start travel).
>
> Bon Voyage,
> Paul
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