[tor-bugs] #6790 [Tor Directory Authority]: Write proposal draft for directory mirrors to accept, aggregate and hand off descriptors to dirauths

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#6790: Write proposal draft for directory mirrors to accept, aggregate and hand
off descriptors to dirauths
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 Reporter:  mikeperry                          |          Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement                        |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  normal                             |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor Directory Authority            |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  MikePerry201210d, proposal-needed  |         Parent:  #2664             
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Comment(by nickm):

 Replying to [comment:14 mikeperry]:
 > Can you explain more about 5 being unsolved? I haven't been following
 microdesc development. You mean the only way to get microdescriptors right
 now is from the dirauths directly?

 Not exactly.

 I mean that right now, when a directory cache wants to learn a consensus,
 a router descriptor, or a microdescriptor, it fetches it from one of the
 authorities.  It can't just ask another cache: there is no mechanism for
 *any* cache to learn this stuff right now other than asking an authority,
 so if all the caches asked each other, nobody would find out.

 Obviously, this could be improved as a Simple Matter of Software Design.

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