[tor-dev] Proposal idea: Stop assigning (and eventually supporting) the Named flag

[Nick Mathewson]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Sebastian Hahn <hahn.seb at web.de> wrote:
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> On 18 Apr 2014, at 19:52, Nick Mathewson <nickm at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>> Imo we _should_ check through the code for things related to the Named
>> flag, though, back through 0.2.3 or maybe 0.2.2.  Reasons:
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>>  * Private networks never worked very well with older tors.
>>  * Maybe there's some piece of obscure functionality that breaks
>> without naming authorities which we never tested on a private network.
>
> Ok, here's round two then, with the Design section updated:
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> Filename: xxx-kill-named-flag.txt

Thanks!  I've added this as proposal 235.