[tor-bugs] #20082 [Core Tor/Tor]: Lower initial descriptor upload delay for ephemeral services

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#20082: Lower initial descriptor upload delay for ephemeral services
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 Reporter:  twim                                |          Owner:
     Type:  enhancement                         |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                              |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                |  0.2.???
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                        |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                              |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-hs, research, proposal-needed?  |  Actual Points:
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 Reviewer:                                      |        Sponsor:
                                                |  SponsorR-can
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Comment (by teor):

 This would also be appreciated by Single Onion Service operators (#17178),
 I've had complaints from those using the test code that descriptor upload
 takes a while.

 However, the threat here is that hidden services that have unstable
 introduction points now upload their descriptors 6x more often.

 Why don't we make the initial upload 5s, and every upload after that 30s?
 Or even better, some kind of exponential backoff to a few minutes - if
 you've changed your intro points ten times, we really don't want your
 eleventh descriptor any time soon.

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