[tor-onions] Renaming Rendezvous Single Onion Services

[Ann O'Nymous]

Tim Wilson-Brown - teor:
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>> On 9 Mar 2016, at 05:33, Ann O'Nymous <ann.onymous at vfemail.net> wrote:
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>> Tim Wilson-Brown - teor:
>>> Hi Kate,
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>>> Aaron and others currently favour "open onion services".
>>>
>>> What do you think?
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>> I remain persuaded by Paul Syverson's arguments for using names that
>> reflect design. Design is unambiguous and reliably accurate, unless
>> there have been substantive coding or merging errors. Conversely,
>> functionality, usage and applicability by threat model are all
>> ephemeral. Bugs and unforseen vulnerabilities can make such names
>> inaccurate and misleading, or even ironic.
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> So what name(s) would you or Paul suggest based on the design in #17178
> (otherwise known as Rendezvous Single Onion Services)?
> I've tried to find out, but it's lost somewhere in the backlog.

Strictly, that would be just "Rendezvous Single-Onion Services". To
emphasize the not-hidden aspect, I like "Exposed Onion Services".
"Exposed Rendezvous Single-Onion Services" is too long. In any case,
"Rendezvous" and "Single-Onion" are probably not very meaningful for
naive users.

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