[tor-dev] Walking Onions status update: week 2 notes

[Nick Mathewson]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 11:21 AM teor <teor at riseup.net> wrote:
>
> Hi Nick,
>
> > On 14 Mar 2020, at 14:44, teor <teor at riseup.net> wrote:
> >
> >>  * As I work, I'm identifying other issues in tor that stand in
> >>    the way of a good efficient walking onion implementation that
> >>    will require other follow-up work.  This week I ran into a
> >>    need for non-TAP-based v2 hidden services, and a need for a
> >>    more efficient family encoding.  I'm keeping track of these
> >>    in my outline file.
>
> Here's another issue you might want to consider:
>
> Currently, new relays get in the consensus as soon as:
>   * they post their descriptors, and
>   * a majority of authorities can contact their ORPorts.
>
> That means clients and relays waste a whole bunch of bandwidth
> downloading consensus info and descriptors for relays with very
> low weights.
>
> Instead, we could have two documents:

Thanks for this! This dovetails nicely with some of the voting design
work I'm up to right now.

-- 
Nick