[metrics-bugs] #22207 [Core Tor/Tor]: Add bridge authority fingerprint to sanitized bridge network statuses

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#22207: Add bridge authority fingerprint to sanitized bridge network statuses
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 Reporter:  karsten                           |          Owner:  metrics-
                                              |  team
     Type:  enhancement                       |         Status:
                                              |  merge_ready
 Priority:  Medium                            |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                              |  0.3.1.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                      |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                            |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  intro, SponsorM, review-group-20  |  Actual Points:  .5
Parent ID:                                    |         Points:  .5
 Reviewer:  isis                              |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by karsten):

 nickm: Turns out there is no specification of ''original'' bridge network
 status documents, just an informal specification of ''sanitized'' bridge
 descriptors on the CollecTor page. There is a little part in the BridgeDB
 specification that says what BridgeDB expects to find in a bridge network
 status document, but that's probably not the best place for specifying
 these documents. And we briefly speculated above about writing a new
 specification document for bridge descriptors based on a grammar, but we
 can still do that after adding "fingerprint" lines to bridge network
 statuses.

 So, what do you think about including a new subsection in dir-spec.txt for
 bridge network status documents? They are technically not v3 documents,
 but we could mention that at the beginning of the subsection. I'm thinking
 of appending a new subsection to "3. Directory authority operation and
 formats", so "3.12. Writing bridge network statuses". I can write a patch
 for that if that makes sense.

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