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+# Publishing the signed consensus { #publishing-signed-consensus }
+
+The voting period ends at the valid-after time. If the consensus has
+been signed by a majority of authorities, these documents are made
+available at
+
+`http://<hostname>/tor/status-vote/current/consensus.z`
+
+and
+
+`http://<hostname>/tor/status-vote/current/consensus-signatures.z`
+
+```text
+   [XXX current/consensus-signatures is not currently implemented, as it
+    is not used in the voting protocol.]
+
+   [XXX possible future features include support for downloading old
+    consensuses.]
+
+   The other vote documents are analogously made available under
+
+http://<hostname>/tor/status-vote/current/authority.z
+http://<hostname>/tor/status-vote/current/<fp>.z
+http://<hostname>/tor/status-vote/current/d/<d>.z
+http://<hostname>/tor/status-vote/current/bandwidth.z
+```
+
+once the voting period ends, regardless of the number of signatures.
+
+The authorities serve another consensus of each flavor "F" from the
+locations
+
+```text
+/tor/status-vote/(current|next)/consensus-F.z. and
+/tor/status-vote/(current|next)/consensus-F/<FP1>+....z.
+```
+
+The standard URLs for bandwidth list files first-appeared in Tor 0.3.5.