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[tor-commits] [torspec/master] Stop pretending that v2 directories are a thing



commit 66e22ce9336b65e050314a7cae9aebb707990f16
Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:   Fri Feb 7 16:04:11 2014 -0500

    Stop pretending that v2 directories are a thing
---
 dir-spec.txt |   17 ++++-------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/dir-spec.txt b/dir-spec.txt
index a594948..507c9c2 100644
--- a/dir-spec.txt
+++ b/dir-spec.txt
@@ -8,10 +8,6 @@
    0.1.0.x series, and dir-spec-v2.txt for information on the protocol
    used by the 0.1.1.x and 0.1.2.x series.
 
-   Caches and authorities must still support older versions of the
-   directory protocols, until the versions of Tor that require them are
-   finally out of commission.
-
    This document merges and supersedes the following proposals:
 
        101  Voting on the Tor Directory System
@@ -182,10 +178,6 @@
 
    All directory information is uploaded and downloaded with HTTP.
 
-   [Authorities also generate and caches also cache documents produced and
-   used by earlier versions of this protocol; see dir-spec-v1.txt and
-   dir-spec-v2.txt for notes on those versions.]
-
 1.1. What's different from version 2?
 
    Clients used to download multiple network status documents,
@@ -741,7 +733,9 @@
         unique IP addresses that have connected from that country to
         request a v2/v3 network status, rounded up to the nearest multiple
         of 8. Only those IP addresses are counted that the directory can
-        answer with a 200 OK status code.
+        answer with a 200 OK status code.  (Note here and below: current Tor
+        versions, as of 0.2.5.2-alpha, no longer cache or serve v2
+        networkstatus documents.)
 
     "dirreq-v2-reqs" CC=N,CC=N,... NL
         [At most once.]
@@ -2597,7 +2591,7 @@
 
    When a client has no consensus network-status document, it downloads it
    from a randomly chosen authority.  In all other cases, the client
-   downloads from caches randomly chosen from among those believed to be V2
+   downloads from caches randomly chosen from among those believed to be V3
    directory servers.  (This information comes from the network-status
    documents; see 6 below.)
 
@@ -2751,9 +2745,6 @@
      - Clients SHOULD NOT choose non-'Guard' nodes when picking entry guard
        nodes.
 
-     - Clients SHOULD NOT download directory information from non-'V2Dir'
-       caches.
-
    See the "path-spec.txt" document for more details.
 
 5.4.2. Managing naming



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