[tor-dev] . tor-roster's geo diversity badge and self-ref relays

[Virgil Griffith]

We'll remove it.

-V

On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 at 05:20 Tom van der Woerdt <info at tvdw.eu> wrote:

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> On 13 Sep 2015, at 22:09, teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 13 Sep 2015, at 18:18, Sean Saito <saitosean at ymail.com> wrote:
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> >"No Self-Referencing Relays"
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> >I'm not sure what exactly you mean by that but I assume it is a MyFamily
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> >config where a relay includes his own fingerprint. Why does that hurt?
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> >The unnecessary descriptor space/bw?
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> This is something Virgil wanted because he thought self-connections were
> ugly.  If the
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> penalizing of self-connections is found to be uglier than the
> self-connections themselves, we're
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> both fine with removing it.
>
>
> Can this be downgraded to an informational message? (or eliminated
> entirely?)
>
> Penalties can be quite discouraging, particularly for minor configuration
> variants.
>
> Tim
>
>
> I agree, and this one in particular is important to some operators: by
> allowing a relay to specify itself in the family, one can just have a
> single configuration file for all relays in a family.
>
> Tom
>
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