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[or-cvs] r11271: Remove a bunch of completed items from the TODO. (in tor/trunk: . doc)
Author: nickm
Date: 2007-08-24 10:41:19 -0400 (Fri, 24 Aug 2007)
New Revision: 11271
Modified:
tor/trunk/
tor/trunk/doc/TODO
Log:
r14205@Kushana: nickm | 2007-08-24 10:29:26 -0400
Remove a bunch of completed items from the TODO.
Property changes on: tor/trunk
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svk:merge ticket from /tor/trunk [r14205] on c95137ef-5f19-0410-b913-86e773d04f59
Modified: tor/trunk/doc/TODO
===================================================================
--- tor/trunk/doc/TODO 2007-08-24 14:41:15 UTC (rev 11270)
+++ tor/trunk/doc/TODO 2007-08-24 14:41:19 UTC (rev 11271)
@@ -57,44 +57,18 @@
away and then returns before the old descriptor has expired.
- add a --quiet commandline option that suppresses logs. useful
for --hashed-password and maybe others.
- o Update dir-spec with decisions made on these issues:
- o clients don't log as loudly when they receive them
- o they don't count toward the 3-strikes rule
- D But eventually, we give up after getting a lot of 503s.
- D Delay when we get a lot of 503s, rather than punting onto the
- servers that have given us 503s?
- o Add a 'BadDirectory' flag to statuses.
- o authorities should *never* 503 a cache, and should never 503
- network status requests.
- D They can 503 client descriptor requests when they feel like it.
- How can they distinguish? Not implemented for now, maybe
- should abandon.
- o describe our 302 not modified behaviors.
- o and document a bit more -- e.g. it looks like we return an empty
- 200 OK when somebody asks us for a networkstatus and we don't
- have it?
- Proposals:
. 101: Voting on the Tor Directory System (plus 103)
- o Prepare ASAP for new voting formats
- o Don't flip out with warnings when voting-related URLs are
- uploaded/downloaded.
. Finalize proposal
- o Merge 101 and 103 and dir-spec.txt into a new dir-spec.txt; fork
- the existing one into dir-spec-v2.txt.
* Describe schedule in copious detail.
- Get authorities voting
. Code to manage key certificates
- Download as needed.
- o Serve list as needed.
- o Avoid double-checking signatures every time we get a vote.
-
. Code to generate consensus from a list of votes
* Detect whether votes are really all for the same period.
. Push/pull documents as appropriate.
- o Serve interim votes and signatures.
- Pull votes and signatures if we don't get them.
- o Store consensuses
- Cache votes and signatures on disk.
o Have clients know which authorities are v3 authorities, and what
their keys are.
@@ -112,16 +86,8 @@
- Start caching consensus documents once authorities make them
- Start downloading and using consensus documents once caches serve them
. 104: Long and Short Router Descriptors
- o Merge proposal
- Drop bandwidth history from router-descriptors
- 105: Version negotiation for the Tor protocol
- o 108: Base "Stable" Flag on Mean Time Between Failures
- o Track mtbf in rephist.c
- o Do not delete old stability information if we're an authority.
- o Make sure authorities call up/down functions as appropriate.
- o Record mtbf between invocations
- o Base Stable on mtbf.
- o Test mtbf logic.
- 113: Simplifying directory authority administration
- 110: prevent infinite-length circuits (phase one)
- servers should recognize relay_extend cells and pass them
@@ -159,20 +125,15 @@
- Implement TLS shutdown properly when possible.
- Maybe move NT services into their own module.
. Autoconf cleanups and improvements:
- o Remove redundant event.h check.
- o Check for zlib with the same machinery as for libevent and openssl.
- o Make the "no longer strictly accurate" message accurate.
. Tell the user what -dev package to install based on OS.
- Detect correct version of libraries.
- o Run autoupdate
- Refactor networkstatus generation:
- o Use networkstatus_getinfo_helper_single() as base of
- networkstatus generation; eliminate duplicate code.
- Include "v" line in getinfo values.
+
- Features:
- Traffic priorities
- Ability to prioritize own traffic over relayed traffic.
- - DNS Proxy
+ . DNS Proxy
- Document it
- A better UI for authority ops.
- Follow weasel's proposal, crossed with mixminion dir config format
@@ -233,8 +194,6 @@
- Teach exit policies about ipv6 (consider ipv4/ipv6 interaction!)
- ...
- Let servers decide to support BEGIN_DIR but not DirPort.
- o Tor should bind its ports before dropping privs, so users don't
- have to do the ipchains dance.
- Blocking-resistance.
- It would be potentially helpful to https requests on the OR port by
acting like an HTTPS server.
@@ -266,10 +225,6 @@
- handle connect-dir streams that don't have a chosen_exit_name set.
- 'networkstatus arrived' event
- More work on AvoidDiskWrites?
- - Get some kind of "meta signing key" to be used solely to sign
- releases/to certify releases when signed by the right people/
- to certify sign the right people's keys? Also use this to cert the SSL
- key, etc. (Proposal 103)
- per-conn write buckets
- separate config options for read vs write limiting
(It's hard to support read > write, since we need better
@@ -294,12 +249,6 @@
just not try to get) descriptors, so it'll never build circuits.
- Tolerate clock skew on bridge relays.
- X Eventdns improvements
- X Have a way to query for AAAA and A records simultaneously.
- X Improve request API: At the very least, add the ability to construct
- a more-or-less arbitrary request and get a response.
- X (Can we suppress cnames? Should we?)
-
- Now that we're avoiding exits when picking non-exit positions,
we need to consider how to pick nodes for internal circuits. If
we avoid exits for all positions, we skew the load balancing. If
@@ -359,9 +308,6 @@
Minor items for 0.1.2.x as time permits:
- include bandwidth breakdown by conn->type in BW events.
- o Unify autoconf search code for libevent and openssl. Make code
- suggest platform-appropriate "devel" / "dev" / whatever packages
- if we can link but we can't find the headers.
- Recommend polipo? Please?
- Make documentation realize that location of system configuration file
will depend on location of system defaults, and isn't always /etc/torrc.
@@ -371,9 +317,6 @@
R - add d64 and fp64 along-side d and fp so people can paste status
entries into a url. since + is a valid base64 char, only allow one
at a time. spec and then do.
- o When we export something from foo.c file for testing purposes only,
- make a foo_test.h file for test.c to include... or put them behind an
- #ifdef FOO_PRIVATE.
- The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
to distinguish configuration errors from other errors. Perhaps
the RPM and other startup scripts should too?
@@ -458,9 +401,6 @@
such errors recently, then don't warn about it.
- More consistent error checking in router_parse_entry_from_string().
I can say "banana" as my bandwidthcapacity, and it won't even squeak.
- o Include the output of svn info in the binary, so it's trivial to see what
- version a binary was built from.
- o Do the same for svk info.
- Add a doxygen style checker to make check-spaces so nick doesn't drift
too far from arma's undocumented styleguide. Also, document that
styleguide in HACKING. (See r9634 for example.)
@@ -518,7 +458,6 @@
design.
- DoS protection: TLS puzzles, public key ops, bandwidth exhaustion.
- Specify?
- o tor-resolve script should use socks5 to get better error messages.
- hidserv offerers shouldn't need to define a SocksPort
* figure out what breaks for this, and do it.
- tor should be able to have a pool of outgoing IP addresses