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diff --git a/doc/spec/proposals/123-autonaming.txt b/doc/spec/proposals/123-autonaming.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 74c486985d..0000000000 --- a/doc/spec/proposals/123-autonaming.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,54 +0,0 @@ -Filename: 123-autonaming.txt -Title: Naming authorities automatically create bindings -Author: Peter Palfrader -Created: 2007-10-11 -Status: Closed -Implemented-In: 0.2.0.x - -Overview: - - Tor's directory authorities can give certain servers a "Named" flag - in the network-status entry, when they want to bind that nickname to - that identity key. This allows clients to specify a nickname rather - than an identity fingerprint and still be certain they're getting the - "right" server. - - Authority operators name a server by adding their nickname and - identity fingerprint to the 'approved-routers' file. Historically - being listed in the file was required for a router, at first for being - listed in the directory at all, and later in order to be used by - clients as a first or last hop of a circuit. - - Adding identities to the list of named routers so far has been a - manual, time consuming, and boring job. Given that and the fact that - the Tor network works just fine without named routers the last - authority to keep a current binding list stopped updating it well over - half a year ago. - - Naming, if it were done, would serve a useful purpose however in that - users can have a reasonable expectation that the exit server Bob they - are using in their http://www.google.com.bob.exit/ URL is the same - Bob every time. - -Proposal: - I propose that identity<->name binding be completely automated: - - New bindings should be added after the router has been around for a - bit and their name has not been used by other routers, similarly names - that have not appeared on the network for a long time should be freed - in case a new router wants to use it. - - The following rules are suggested: - i) If a named router has not been online for half a year, the - identity<->name binding for that name is removed. The nickname - is free to be taken by other routers now. - ii) If a router claims a certain nickname and - a) has been on the network for at least two weeks, and - b) that nickname is not yet linked to a different router, and - c) no other router has wanted that nickname in the last month, - a new binding should be created for this router and its desired - nickname. - - This automaton does not necessarily need to live in the Tor code, it - can do its job just as well when it's an external tool. - |