Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 257: Refactoring authorities and taking parts offline

Subject: Re: [tor-dev] Proposal 257: Refactoring authorities and taking parts offline

From: Tim Wilson-Brown - teor <teor2345@xxxxxxxxx>

Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 07:08:33 +1100

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On 28 Oct 2015, at 04:38, Nick Mathewson <nickm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

    * Authorities serve as a location for distributing consensus
      documents, descriptors, extrainfo documents, and
      microdescriptors...

         * To directory mirrors. (BW?, PUB?, LOC?)

         * To clients that do not yet know a directory mirror. (BW!!, PUB)

The FallbackDirectory feature in #15775 will reduce authority bandwidth requirements if it is merged, as a list of high-uptime, stable mirrors will be consulted before, or simultaneously with (#4483, prop #210) the authorities.

Tim

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