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ts-024-sni-blocking.md: better document design choices (#182)
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# Specification version number

2020-03-07-001
2020-03-07-002

# Specification name

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# Expected impact

Understanding whether there is blocking triggered by
the content of the TLS Hello's SNI field.
Understanding whether there is blocking triggered by the content of
the TLS Hello's SNI field. For a given SNI/domain, this nettest uses a
test helper server, rather than talking to the server for the specified
SNI/domain. This design is especially beneficial when additional blocking
rules may cause the DNS to return bogus responses, or the IP address
for the SNI/domain to be unreachable/filtered.

# Expected inputs

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# Privacy considerations

This nettest may be less intrusive than other nettests that measure
blocking of a specific host by connecting directly to it.
blocking of a specific host by connecting directly to it. In particular,
we are not issuing DNS queries for the sensitive domain and we are not
connecting to the sensitive IP address.

# Packet capture considerations

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