On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 01:13:26PM -0500, A. Johnson wrote:
>       1. '''onion service''' should be preferred to refer to what is now 
> called a "hidden service". If other flavors of onion services develop in the 
> future, this term could refer to all of them, with more specific terms being 
> used when it is necessary to make the distinction.

I'm a fan.

>       1. Some names for a setup in which the onion service location is known 
> but still must be connected to via the Tor protocol:
>               * '''Tor-required service''', '''TRS''' for short
>               * '''Direct onion service''', '''direct service''' for short
>       2. Some names to specify that the onion service is hidden, if that 
> becomes necessary:
>               * '''Protected onion service''', '''protected service''' for 
> short
>               * '''Tor-protected service''', '''TPS''' for short

You know how we call "a person who makes an anonymous Facebook account
over Tor and uses it without ever identifying herself to Facebook"
a Tor user? And how we also call "a person who logs into her 'real'
Facebook account over Tor" a Tor user?

I think for more onion service scenarios than we think, we should
just call them onion services and not specify which components of the
rendezvous process are short-circuited and which aren't.

And for those situations where we're specifically talking about whether
the rendezvous process is short-circuited on the client side and/or the
service side... I wonder what people think of this 'short-circuited'
term. (It is both an English idiom and also actually true.)

--Roger

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