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authorRoger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org>2007-03-09 23:08:34 +0000
committerRoger Dingledine <arma@torproject.org>2007-03-09 23:08:34 +0000
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@@ -116,29 +116,3 @@ Migration:
* Have routers stop including bandwidth info in their router
descriptors.
-Discussion:
-
- Solution 4 seems like a nice plan: in many cases, the external services
- that use read-history and write-history are directory authorities
- themselves, so they just use their local opinion.
-
- Roger thinks we should go with the long/short descriptor plan, along
- with solution 4. We don't want to just upload a bandwidth message,
- because that involves new data structures for every new piece of
- information we decide to upload. I suspect we'll realize once this
- is deployed that there is other info we want to put in the long
- descriptors.
-
- This won't solve the future sanitized GeoIP uploading question, but
- who knows where we'll actually want to send that data, and whether
- we'll want to handle it with the same privacy constraints as this data,
- so let's not try to solve that yet.
-
- However, we may still need some basic reconciling algorithms between
- authorities -- otherwise, if a router uploads to four authorities
- and fails to reach the fifth, then that fifth will never have the new
- descriptor. This will mean that the best strategy for external tools
- is to fetch full concatenated-style long-descriptor lists from every
- single authority, and merge them locally. So each authority should
- periodically fetch the list from the others and take the new ones.
-