On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:36:36AM -0600, Dan Treiman wrote: > I'm tentatively interested - I have some servers and the bandwidth. > (I'm in the US, with locations in Minnesota and Texas). > Let me know how this would work. I've had a number of people contact me off-list, thanks for the feedback. If anyone sees potential technical or liability issues feel free to criticize. The core idea is to have high-quality Tor servers in different jurisdictions, owned by different legal entities or persons, to manage their pool of authenticated users. Operators charge their subscribers to cover their costs. It might make sense for several operators e.g. in the U.S. to create an umbrella/front organization to reduce the overhead of accounting, marketing, etc. Marketing can be global, in fact (Yahoo or Google AdWords would come to mind). Similiar could work for EU, or at least Germany. It would be good to achieve balanced traffic flow (as much traffic is entering your node as leaves your node), so that there won't be a need for monetary compensation between operators. Arguably, throttling traffic to a lowest common denominator (say, 10 MBit/s) should take care of it automatically, given that each node has about the same number of users. Whether each operator maintains their own authenticated users pool, or there will be a common authenticated user pool (this will require cash flow among operators, and would violate the compartmentalization rule) is TBD. I think each operator taking care of their own users has less potential issues (costs and thus charges to users will vary somewhat from operator to operator). I'm suggesting that users authenticate by a server-side prepackaged (containing the secret) OpenVPN installer. I think for starters we should just stick with anonymized web access (at the very least definitely no mail and P2P because of easy abuse potential). -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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