Moritz Bartl: > Prices vary widely across different countries. We pay between $400 and > $1500 per Gbit/s per month in "popular and cheap locations". In a > scenario where we want to grow the network and at least keep the current > geographical diversity (or even grow it), we'd have to at least equally > strengthen less fortunate locations. Right. With just one or two identity fingerprints, I can give an estimate on the minimum cost to build an equivalent Tor network with the same capacity, as I have already done. This is not very interesting, though, as you point out. But with just one or two good example identity fingerprints (with pricing) in key locations, I can tell us how much investment it would take to build the Tor network with the diversity we want, using our current load balancing and network load. In other words, I can easily calculate what it would cost to ensure that the network path selection was made up of W% of RU, X% of US relays, Y% of EU relays, Z% of JP relays, etc etc. With many more datapoints I can tell us how much the current Tor network actually costs with its current diversity, but I think that is actually less interesting, unless we wanted to be able to make assumptions like "As soon as we start paying people for bandwidth, all of (or X% of) our volunteers will instantly disappear" (which seems unlikely to me, but others think is a realistic concern). *But* In order to do any of this, I need specific identity fingerprints and prices to do that calculation first. Again, I want to extrapolate from real relays, using our current load balancing. So far only two people have given me identity fingerprints with actual pricing information. I need way more. -- Mike Perry
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