Edit prop279 to support alternative name representations and non-English languages
Attached is a git diff patch with edits to torspec.git/proposals/279-naming-layer-api.txt (patch on 13cbcbc). Inspired by discussion on tor-dev:
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-December/012743.html
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2017-December/012746.html
Brief conceptual overview of the most significant changes:
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Support Name System API plugins which transform self-contained alternative representations of the data in .onion names. These can be safely configured for a global wildcard '*', then sandboxed with neither network nor filesystem access.
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Add UTF-8 support, so as not restrict the Name System API to users of American English.
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Specify failure status codes which will cause name resolution attempts to stop, even if the name may match the TLD for other plugins at a lower priority. This is useful if a plugin configured for a '*' TLD definitively recognizes that a name is invalid, e.g. due to checksum failure.
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Other changes which support the foregoing objectives.
Please review and commit.
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