Aside: in pursuit of helping Jake register “.onion” as a "special name” in an 
RFC, I am currently being beaten-up on the IETF discussion mail-list regards 
the potential future length of onion addresses, and that they may possibly 
exceed the bounds of DNS’ maximum label length of 63 characters:

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg94332.html 
<https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg94332.html>

The examples in Proposal 224 are a mere 53 characters long leaving 10 to play 
with for padding-hyphens and possibly checksum characters.

Nick: Is this likely to need to change? Or might there be a need to encode > 
315 bits / 63 chars total?

    -a

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Alec Muffett
Security Infrastructure
Facebook Engineering
London

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