Proposal 145: Separate "suitable as a guard" from "suitable as a new guard"

[Peter Palfrader]

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote:

> On Wed, 02 Jul 2008, Nick Mathewson wrote:
> 
> >    We might instead have authorities list weights with which nodes
> >    should be picked as guards.
> 
> That is something I will need to do anyway, I think.  In that case the
> guard _flag_ would mean "keep as your guard", and the guard _weight_
> would mean "pick with propability $p"?

The weight probably also should be used for "among the guards you have,
use them by this weight".

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