On May 16, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Nick Mathewson wrote:
As long promised, I've revised Roger's January proposal on
microdescriptors. Here's the latest version. It incorporates (I
hope) our discussions on the topic, plus suggestions based on
proposal
162.
[snip]
(We use base64 for size and for consistency with the consensus
format. We use -s instead of +s to separate these items, since
this sentence's end is not
what is it trying to
I thought about issues when we add/remove more than one authority
before all operators had a chance to upgrade or upgrade again (in
case of removal), but couldn't come up with an actually bad
situation. But this led to the realization that the work flow
described just talks about one authority getting added/removed at a
time, I think the situation with more than one change can quickly
get complex (and it's easy to imagine that with 15 authorities, some
operators will be on vacation for a month, for example). The
proposal could maybe be clearer on how those cases should be handled
by the operators.
Sebastian