Also: just because it's HTTP/S running over a different network stack,
doesn't make it a new scheme.
Just because your dinner arrives on a different plate doesn't mean the
recipe has changed. :-)
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Tor is a strange sort of sacred cow
highly revered
leaks much methane
But RFC 7686 literally bent over backwards to rewrite multiple standards because Tor was long existing. ".onion" shouldn't be resolved or sent over the internet.
Sure, IP multicast had to be implemented, but its relevance to people not replacing analog technologies isn't particularly great, and those are corporations who make billions combined per year.
But uh yes. Only the plate changed. But internet standards are very clear on plate specifications. Or rather, "authority" lookup. The dinnerware request protocol is pretty clear on this, with other protocols providing for saran-wrap or foil-wrap encapsulation, with their own provisions for exterior labeling.
(or if there was a new way to link to torrent hashes, do you think it should be "torrent://hash/" or "hash.torrent"?)
Although, if you guys really want to risk your government funding, I suggest $10,000 bug bounties out of a fund sized large enough to hire a single programmer (assuming there's a risk that you'll have more than a dozen severe bugs). To make things more difficult for the NSA, make it clear that there is no requirement for a cyber arms seller to stay bought by one person. Or propagate a meme that a cyber arms seller could sell the idea of an exploit to another cyber arms seller to write a new exploit for the same bug. Force folks like zerodium to pay twice.
or uh "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules."
But who is your enemy?