I'm not sure why so many people seem to think that I'm implying anything about HTTP. "onion" would be fine as a URI scheme I think. Different programs would int

I'm not sure why so many people seem to think that I'm implying anything about HTTP. "onion" would be fine as a URI scheme I think. Different programs would interpret it differently, which is obviously bad, and using a special-use domain name lets it slot seamlessly into the usual URI system as just a different sort of host specifier, which is obviously better, lacking something like nested URIs (http://www.it.uc3m.es/muruenya/papers/nested_uris_euromicro05.pdf http://www.it.uc3m.es/muruenya/papers/nested_uris_euromicro0...), which never became a thing.