[tor-dev] Clarification of prop 186

[Linus Nordberg]

Hi,

Can votes and consensuses have more than one "a" line? Prop 186 says, on
one hand

  [...] votes should include a single "a" line for every relay that has
  an IPv6 address, to include the first IPv6 line in its
  descriptor. [...] The remaining or-address lines will turn into "a"
  lines in the microdescriptor.

I interpret this to mean that there is at most one "a" line in a status
vote or consensus.

On the other hand it also says

  Clients that use microdescriptors should consider a node's addresses
  to be the address:port listed in the "r" line of a consensus, plus all
  "a" lines for that node in the consensus, [...]

and

  the vote will include whichever set of "a" lines are given by the most
  authorities who voted for the descriptor digest that will be used for
  the router.

(Is "vote" a typo?  Should it read "consensus"?)

This makes me think there can be more than one "a" line in both votes
and consensuses.

-- 
Linus