[tor-bugs] #21642 [Core Tor/Tor]: Prop275: Eliminate "published" times from microdescriptor consensus

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#21642: Prop275: Eliminate "published" times from microdescriptor consensus
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 Reporter:  nickm                               |          Owner:  nickm
     Type:  enhancement                         |         Status:
                                                |  merge_ready
 Priority:  Medium                              |      Milestone:  Tor:
                                                |  0.3.1.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                        |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                              |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  TorCoreTeam201703, review-group-17  |  Actual Points:  .5
Parent ID:                                      |         Points:  2
 Reviewer:                                      |        Sponsor:  Sponsor4
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Comment (by arma):

 In fact, I was pondering either a world where we merge something like my
 hack1 branch, and then relays wouldn't need to look at the microdesc
 consensus published_on values anymore.

 Or a world where we design some new hack where we put all the timestamps
 to the same future value, *except* for the ones that are sufficiently old
 to trigger the "is quite old" hack.

 I'm going to try to track down the "woah that's a lot of descriptor
 publish attempts" bug more in the meantime.

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