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Re: [tor-dev] prop224: Maximum introduction points in a descriptor



> On 12 Oct 2016, at 06:39, David Goulet <dgoulet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Hello Tor-Dev!
> 
> As part of some discussions that happened at the Seattle Tor Meeting few weeks
> ago, we've talked about the number of introduction points in an hidden service
> descriptor for proposal 224 (next generation HS).
> 
> I've attached a spec change with the values ranging:
> 
>    Minimum: 0 - Default: 3 - Maximum: 20
> 
> The changes from what we have right now is basically the maximum. We would
> like to go from 10 to 20. It's arbitrary for now but one of the main reasons
> is to allow tools like OnionBalance to be able to scale more as we heard from
> large HS operators that they would like to go above 60 (10 * 6 HSDirs).
> 
> Let us know what you think!

Yes please!
This makes a huge difference to hidden service scaling.

It's the easiest change we can make, at least until we merge rendezvous handoff.
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17254

Tim

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