[or-cvs] r15948: july progress: p#141 questions mainly under discussion: load (website/trunk/projects/en)

[weasel at seul.org]

Author: weasel
Date: 2008-07-15 19:22:40 -0400 (Tue, 15 Jul 2008)
New Revision: 15948

Modified:
   website/trunk/projects/en/lowbandwidth.wml
Log:
july progress: p#141 questions mainly under discussion: load balancing and exit policy handing

Modified: website/trunk/projects/en/lowbandwidth.wml
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--- website/trunk/projects/en/lowbandwidth.wml	2008-07-15 21:27:02 UTC (rev 15947)
+++ website/trunk/projects/en/lowbandwidth.wml	2008-07-15 23:22:40 UTC (rev 15948)
@@ -186,7 +186,28 @@
 
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-    Jul 08
+    <a id="Jul08"></a>
+    <a class="anchor" href="#Jul08">Jul 08</a>
+    <small><em>Work on <a
+    href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/doc/spec/proposals/141-jit-sd-downloads.txt">Proposal
+    141</a> is continuing:  There are two basic ideas for how to move
+    load balancing information into the consensus: One is the
+    authorities generate the weights that clients should use and put
+    that in the consensus, the other approach is to just put bandwidth
+    information from the server descriptor there.  The latter option
+    is probably friendlier when one also considers <a
+    href="https://svn.torproject.org/svn/tor/trunk/doc/spec/proposals/140-consensus-diffs.txt">Proposal
+    141</a> since it avoids a having number of highly fluctuating
+    numbers in the consensus.</em></small>
+    <br />
+    <small><em>For handling exit policies <a
+    href="http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Jul-2008/msg00022.html">a
+    post on the or-dev mailinglist</a> sugests that a hash identifying a
+    node's exit policy be added to the consensus document.  The addition
+    of another 160 high-entropy bits per node to the consensus might
+    be a cause for concern but we think that since a lot of the exit
+    policies are the same the consensus document will compress nicely.
+    Measurements pending.</em></small>
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