Re: [tor-relays] Individual Operator Exit Probability Threshold

[Christopher <yawnbox@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hey John!

In Seattle, as you know, Emerald Onion is now online. We're at about
1.5% right now. We're grant writing, too, and hopefully within the
next year we will be able to support 5-10%.

Have you published any Warrant Canaries? We're working with Calyx on a
generic template for relay operators and hope to start publishing one
every month, soon. Also, we've been working closely with HardenedBSD.
Are you able to increase either software or hardware (not Intel)
capacity?

If you have time, Emerald Onion is working on material to help others
become their own ISP like Quintex and Emerald Onion have. We'll be
focusing on sustainable nonprofit ISPs. One of our drivers is finding
people near IXPs in the USA to help get started:
https://emeraldonion.org/internet-exchange-points-in-the-united-states/

Like Teor mentioned, it's important for operators to increase capacity
and stability, while still meaningfully supporting diversity. Emerald
Onion is not going to surpass 10% of exit capacity without first
helping ~10 other groups set up and manage their own 1%+ relays. As
more and more high-capacity groups come online, I think orgs like
Quintex and Emerald Onion can slowly increase capacity but stick
around the 10% line.

I applaud you for your work!

Cheers,

yawnbox


On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 6:26 AM, teor <teor2345@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On 22 Sep 2017, at 23:04, John Ricketts <john@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I have brought this question  up in meetings in Seattle and other places so some of you may have already heard me ask this question.  So, at risk of repeating the question for some... here goes.
>>
>> I am about to fire up more Exit Relays  and if I do so I will jump from my roughly 3% of Exit Probability to what technically could easily reach 6-8%.
>>
>> I would like to know everyone’s opinion on having an individual operator have that much exit share.  In my case, all the traffic would be coming from the same AS as well, but distributed over four different cities with different upstream carriers.
>>
>> Please chime in, if I get the a green light from the discussion it will happen within a month.
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> Thank you for supporting Tor!
> And thank you for asking in advance.
>
> More exit relays are good, and we should encourage people who want to
> help the network.
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> This is a reminder that we need more exit operators, running more large
> exits. If we think your exit share is a problem, the best way to make
> that problem go away is to add other exits.
>
> We're also working on better geographic diversity in bandwidth
> authorities, and this may cause relay weights to shift a bit. So that's
> another way we could end up resolving this issue :-)
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