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diff --git a/spec/dir-spec-intro.md b/spec/dir-spec-intro.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9a4ef78 --- /dev/null +++ b/spec/dir-spec-intro.md @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +Tor directory protocol, version 3 + +Table of Contents + +```text + 0. Scope and preliminaries + 0.1. History + 0.2. Goals of the version 3 protoc + 0.3. Some Remaining questions + 1. Outline + 1.1. What's different from version 2? + 1.2. Document meta-format + 1.3. Signing documents + 1.4. Voting timeline + 2. Router operation and formats + 2.1. Uploading server descriptors and extra-info documents + 2.1.1. Server descriptor format + 2.1.2. Extra-info document format + 2.1.3. Nonterminals in server descriptors + 3. Directory authority operation and formats + 3.1. Creating key certificates + 3.2. Accepting server descriptor and extra-info document uploads + 3.3. Computing microdescriptors + 3.4. Exchanging votes + 3.4.1. Vote and consensus status document formats + 3.4.2. Assigning flags in a vote + 3.4.3. Serving bandwidth list files + 3.5. Downloading missing certificates from other directory authorities + 3.6. Downloading server descriptors from other directory authorities + 3.7. Downloading extra-info documents from other directory authorities + 3.8. Computing a consensus from a set of votes + 3.8.0.1. Deciding which Ids to include. + 3.8.0.2. Deciding which descriptors to include + 3.8.1. Forward compatibility + 3.8.2. Encoding port lists + 3.8.3. Computing Bandwidth Weights + 3.9. Computing consensus flavors + 3.9.1. ns consensus + 3.9.2. Microdescriptor consensus + 3.10. Exchanging detached signatures + 3.11. Publishing the signed consensus + 4. Directory cache operation + 4.1. Downloading consensus status documents from directory authorities + 4.2. Downloading server descriptors from directory authorities + 4.3. Downloading microdescriptors from directory authorities + 4.4. Downloading extra-info documents from directory authorities + 4.5. Consensus diffs + 4.5.1. Consensus diff format + 4.5.2. Serving and requesting diff + 4.6 Retrying failed downloads + 5. Client operation + 5.1. Downloading network-status documents + 5.2. Downloading server descriptors or microdescriptors + 5.3. Downloading extra-info documents + 5.4. Using directory information + 5.4.1. Choosing routers for circuits. + 5.4.2. Managing naming + 5.4.3. Software versions + 5.4.4. Warning about a router's status. + 5.5. Retrying failed downloads + 6. Standards compliance + 6.1. HTTP headers + 6.2. HTTP status codes + A. Consensus-negotiation timeline. + B. General-use HTTP URLs + C. Converting a curve25519 public key to an ed25519 public key + D. Inferring missing proto lines. + E. Limited ed diff format +``` + |