[or-cvs] [tor/master] Add TODO.022 items based on discussion with arma

[nickm@xxxxxxxx (Nick Mathewson)]

Author: Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 19:09:51 -0400
Subject: Add TODO.022 items based on discussion with arma
Commit: 36c2db2b2e065ea7eab50a748dd8ad023dd46b49

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 doc/TODO.022 |   38 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/TODO.022 b/doc/TODO.022
index 3eeae00..652fdec 100644
--- a/doc/TODO.022
+++ b/doc/TODO.022
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ NOTE 2: It's easy to list stuff like this with no time estimates and
         0.2.2, figure out how long the stuff we want will take, and
         triage accordingly, or vice versa.
 
-- Design
+- Design only
   - Begin design work for UDP transition; identify areas where we need to
     make changes or instrument stuff early.
 
@@ -30,14 +30,31 @@ NOTE 2: It's easy to list stuff like this with no time estimates and
 
   - Figure out good ways to instrument Tor internals so we can tell
     how well our bandwidth and flow-control stuff is actually working.
+    - What ports eat the bandwidth?
+    - How full do queues get?
+    - How much latency do queues get?
 
-- Features
+  - Rate limit at clients:
+    - Give clients an upper bound on how much they're willing to use
+      the network if they're not relaying?
+    - ... or group client circuits by IP at the server and rate-limit
+      like that.
+
+
+
+- Other features
   - Proposals to implement:
     - 146: reflect long-term stability
     - 147: Stop using v2 directories to generate v3 votes.
+      - Start pinging as soon as we learn about a relay, not on a
+        22-minute cycle.  Prioritize new and volatile relays for
+        testing.
 
   - Proposals to improve and implement
     - 158: microdescriptors
+    - 160: list bandwidth in consensus
+      - and actually set it reasonably
+      - and actually use it.
 
   - Proposals to improve and implement if not broken
     - IPv6 support.  (Parts of 117, but figure out how to handle DNS
@@ -46,6 +63,23 @@ NOTE 2: It's easy to list stuff like this with no time estimates and
     - 149: learn info from netinfo cells.
     - 134: handle authority fragmentation (Needs more analysis)
 
+  - Needs a proposal, or at least some design
+    - Detect client-status better
+    - Have authorities report relay and voting status better: make it
+      easy to answer, "Why is my server not listed/not Guard/not
+      Running/etc"
+    - Have consensuses come in multiple "flavours".
+    - Weaken the requirements for being a Guard, based on K's
+      measurements.
+    - Adaptive timeouts for giving up on circuits and streams.
+    - Have weight for picking new nodes as guards be less stupid
+    - Lagged weight updates in consensuses: don't just move abruptly.
+    d Don't kill a circuit on the first failed extend.
+
+- Installers
+  - Switch to MSI on win32
+  - Use Thandy, perhaps?
+
 - Deprecations
   - Make .exit safe, or make it off-by-default.
 
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