[or-cvs] Dir spec change: Clarify rules on how to treat servers base...

[nickm@xxxxxxxx (Nick Mathewson)]

Update of /home/or/cvsroot/tor/doc
In directory moria:/tmp/cvs-serv5773/doc

Modified Files:
	dir-spec.txt 
Log Message:
Dir spec change: Clarify rules on how to treat servers based on networkstatus values.  Is this sane?

Index: dir-spec.txt
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RCS file: /home/or/cvsroot/tor/doc/dir-spec.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.13
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -d -r1.13 -r1.14
--- dir-spec.txt	2 Sep 2005 20:46:44 -0000	1.13
+++ dir-spec.txt	12 Sep 2005 05:51:43 -0000	1.14
@@ -222,9 +222,13 @@
        status is "live" if it is the most recently downloaded network status
        document for a given directory server, and the server is a directory
        server trusted by the client, and the network-status document is no
-       more than D (say, 10) days old.
-     - A server is "live" if it is listed as running by at more-than-half of
-       the last N (three) "live" downloaded network-status documents.
+       more than D (say, 10) days old.)
+     - A server is "valid" is it is listed as valid by more than half of the
+       "live" downloaded" network-status document.
+     - A server is "running" if it is listed as running more than half of the
+       "recent" downloaded network-status documents.  (A network status is
+       "recent" if was published in the last 60 minutes.  If there are fewer
+       than 3 such documents, the most recently published 3 are "recent.")
 
    Clients store network status documents so long as they are live.