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Re: Proposal: Optimistic Data for Tor: Server Side



On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:13:45 -0700
Robert Ransom <rransom.8774@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 15:56:08 -0400
> Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Ian Goldberg <iang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >  [...]
> > >> They look like Tor version numbers, for whatever Tor version merges
> > >> the patch that implements this, and later.
> > >
> > > No, I mean that if someone writes a totally different implementation of
> > > the Tor server (say in some other language like Java or Haskell), how
> > > will the client be able to tell whether that implementation supports
> > > this feature?
> > 
> > We have no really good solution for this in general. It would be neat
> > to work one out, but that's probably a separate proposal. :)
> 
> Add a relay descriptor line:
> 
> bugfixes trac1795,fs12345,bz9876

On second thought, a âproposalsâ line would be more appropriate.
(Other implementations would have their own bugs and bug trackers.)

Robert Ransom

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