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author | teor <teor@torproject.org> | 2019-01-14 11:21:14 +1000 |
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committer | teor <teor@torproject.org> | 2019-01-14 11:21:14 +1000 |
commit | 469698c3ec53b25bde59c5296cf9b2d914a07bea (patch) | |
tree | 9d3cbea6a6e06cf803e6f48e72220ab10e8817e2 /bandwidth-file-spec.txt | |
parent | 139b5d05b038aec9ea2ba91b9fc371119a7e8fd1 (diff) | |
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bandwidth: rewrite the intro
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diff --git a/bandwidth-file-spec.txt b/bandwidth-file-spec.txt index 7e859b7..05d1f40 100644 --- a/bandwidth-file-spec.txt +++ b/bandwidth-file-spec.txt @@ -4,16 +4,17 @@ 1. Scope and preliminaries - This document describes the format of Tor's Bandwidth List, - version 1.0.0, 1.1.0 and later. - It is new specification for the existing format 1.0.0. - Describes a new format 1.1.0, which is backwards compatible with - 1.0.0 parsers. + This document describes the format of Tor's Bandwidth List, version + 1.0.0 and later. - Since Tor version 0.2.4.12-alpha the directory authorities use + It is a new specification for the existing bandwidth file format, + which we call version 1.0.0. It also specifies new format versions + 1.1.0 and later, which are backwards compatible with 1.0.0 parsers. + + Since Tor version 0.2.4.12-alpha, the directory authorities use the Bandwidth List file called "V3BandwidthsFile" generated by - Torflow [1]. The format is described in Torflow's README.spec.txt and - is considered to be version 1.0.0. + Torflow [1]. The details of this format are described in Torflow's + README.spec.txt. We also summarise the format in this specification. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and @@ -36,6 +37,7 @@ The Tor directory protocol (dir-spec.txt [3]) sections 3.4.1 and 3.4.2, use the term bandwidth measurements, to refer to what here is called Bandwidth List. + A Bandwidth List file contains information on relays' bandwidth capacities and is produced by bandwidth generators, previously known as bandwidth scanners. |