[tor-bugs] #25552 [Core Tor/Tor]: prop224: Onion service rev counters are useless and actually harmful for scalability

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#25552: prop224: Onion service rev counters are useless and actually harmful for
scalability
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 Reporter:  asn             |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect          |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium          |      Milestone:  Tor: unspecified
Component:  Core Tor/Tor    |        Version:  Tor: 0.3.1.9
 Severity:  Normal          |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  tor-hs prop224  |  Actual Points:
Parent ID:                  |         Points:  4
 Reviewer:                  |        Sponsor:
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Comment (by arma):

 Replying to [ticket:25552 asn]:
 > b) In the far future, when all HSDirs have upgraded to (a), rip out the
 rev counter code from onion services.

 As I understand it, HSDirs learned how to handle v3 descriptors in
 0.3.0.1-alpha, as part of #17238.

 According to
 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/org/teams/NetworkTeam/CoreTorReleases#Listofreleases
 Tor 0.3.0 is already dead. And importantly, the feature isn't in our long-
 term-stable 0.2.9.

 So as long as we get the new functionality into HSDirs before the next
 long-term-stable, the "far future" will just be a matter of waiting some
 months for intermediate stable versions to die out.

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