From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nils Gillmann Subject: Re: service: make hidden-service an alias of onion service Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:35:27 +0200 Message-ID: <877fgg2fcw.fsf@grrlz.net> References: <87bn5uv6e1.fsf@grrlz.net> <878u0ybakr.fsf@gnu.org> <87io02jnkz.fsf@grrlz.net> <877fghk95v.fsf@gnu.org> 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]:41657) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1amNac-0001Fk-Rx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2016 11:35:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1amNaY-0000UL-8m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2016 11:35:54 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53371) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1amNaY-0000Tz-1k for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2016 11:35:50 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1amNaP-0003kr-2W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:35:41 +0200 Received: from x5d83e6e0.dyn.telefonica.de ([93.131.230.224]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:35:41 +0200 Received: from niasterisk by x5d83e6e0.dyn.telefonica.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:35:41 +0200 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: guix-devel@gnu.org shakmar@openmailbox.org writes: >> 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. I have another request question lined up for the tor-talk list, I will ask if there's an official consensus. If there's none I say we delay it until the point in time when it changes. sidenote: Hooray, gmane fails to filter some messages correctly. Maybe I just switch away from it again. -- ng personal contact: http://krosos.sdf.org EDN: https://wiki.c3d2.de/EDN