From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: shakmar@openmailbox.org Subject: Re: service: make hidden-service an alias of onion service Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2016 15:03:15 +0200 Message-ID: <20160402130314.GB24336@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50221) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1amLD1-0008SV-IA for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2016 09:03:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1amLCy-0003Pn-Aq for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2016 09:03:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org > At , I see > that “Tor developers use the terms "hidden services" and "onion > services" interchangeably.” No evidence that there’s a incentive to > use “onion services”, or did I miss it? > > Thanks, > Ludo’. Looking at the ‘hidden-services’ tag as well: https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/hidden-services led me to this blog post: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/hidden-service-hackfest-arlington-accords which states: | We talked about rebranding the "Hidden Services" project to "Onion | Services" to reduce "hidden"/"dark"/"evil" name connotations, and | improve terminology. In fact, [we've been on this for a while][1], but | we are still not sure what the right name is. What do you think? [1]: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2015-February/008256.html I don’t know what the current consensus is though. I guess variables with both names should be provided.