Organisations that look after the top level domains such as .uk and .de are asking Icann to give guarantees about root server stability, given that billions of dollars of e-commerce now depend on the safe running of these key servers.
So far, Lewman says, Tor's developers haven't figured out how that probe is able to determine what's an encrypted connection to a Tor server and what's a connection to an encrypted banking or e-commerce site, which in theory should both look to a snooping government like indecipherably scrambled Web traffic.