[tor-dev] Proposal 257: Refactoring authorities and taking parts offline

[Tim Wilson-Brown - teor]

> On 28 Oct 2015, at 04:38, Nick Mathewson <nickm at torproject.org> wrote:
> 
>     * Authorities serve as a location for distributing consensus
>       documents, descriptors, extrainfo documents, and
>       microdescriptors...
> 
>          * To directory mirrors. (BW?, PUB?, LOC?)
> 
>          * To clients that do not yet know a directory mirror. (BW!!, PUB)


The FallbackDirectory feature in #15775 will reduce authority bandwidth requirements if it is merged, as a list of high-uptime, stable mirrors will be consulted before, or simultaneously with (#4483, prop #210) the authorities.

Tim

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