Virgil, why does your below example have a bitcoin field? Perhaps you should rephrase your motivation more plainly to something like: """ Hello, I'm a bitcoin capitalist profiteer and I wish to disturb the existing power structures within the Tor Project community with my capitalist bitcoin profiteering agenda. """ Sincerely, David Stainton On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:22:59AM +0200, Virgil Griffith wrote: > Filename: ExtraRelayDescriptorFields.txt > Title: Adding new X- fields to relay descriptor > Author: Virgil Griffith, Nick Mathewson > Created: 2014-06-03 > Status: Open > > > 1. Motivation > We wish to allow developers to build new applications atop relays. Towards > this > end, we wish to add the ability for users to specify arbitrary new key-value > entries under the "X-" namespace. > > > 2. Proposal > Allow optional key-value lines in the relay's torrc file. These lines will > be > mirrored in the relay's descriptor which is then published in the directory > consensus. > > > For example: > X-bitcoin 19mP9FKrXqL46Si58pHdhGKow88SUPy1V8 > X-gravatar https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/d27fce46c9ac41a41bb52455ae75701d > X-favoritequote Be excellent to each other. Party on dudes! > X-foo bar > > > The value field must be printable ASCII (characters 32-126). The value must > not under any condition contain a newline. The key may contain lowercase > ASCII letters (a-z), digits, underscore, or dash. In regex, [-_0-9a-z]. > > There may need to be a maximum sum length of the X- entries. This is > left to the developers. I propose a maximum sum length of 5 kilobytes. > > To mitigate the chance of a malformed torrc file, I additionally propose > there > be a schema for the relay descriptor, and if the relay descriptor fails to > match the schema it errors to the user to change her torrc file. > > -V > _______________________________________________ > tor-dev mailing list > tor-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
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