[tor-onions] Prioritising Onion Service Features

[Tom van der Woerdt]

> On 27 Jan 2016, at 04:09, Tim Wilson-Brown - teor <teor2345 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> As onion (hidden) service operators, what features would you like to see in release 0.2.8?
> I want to find out what will help onion service operators the most.
> 
> I think I might be able to finish Rendezvous Single Onion Services, or help finish Rendezvous Handoff, but not both.
> 
> A Rendezvous Single Onion Service (RSOS) is an onion service that connects directly to the introduction and rendezvous points.
> For services that don't need to hide their location, it provides better connection latency, and likely better throughput.
> (And a large RSOS puts less load on the Tor network than a large HS.)
> See proposal #260 for more information: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/260-rend-single-onion.txt
> And for the remaining tasks: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17178#childtickets
> 
> Rendezvous Handoff allows Hidden Services and Rendezvous Single Onion Services to perform the introduction in one tor process, and then handoff the rendezvous to a separate tor process. This allows services to scale beyond the number of rendezvous connections (clients) that a single tor process can handle. We suspect that's about 100 at this point.
> See proposal #255 for more information: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/tree/proposals/255-hs-load-balancing.txt
> And for the draft implementation: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/17254
> And the issue it's trying to solve: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/8902
> 
> Some personal background:
> I have about a week to a month of development time left before I have to start some other work.
> At this point, it's unclear whether I will be working on Tor or not.
> So I'd like to maximise the impact of my remaining Tor development time.
> 
> It would be great if you could help me work out how to do that!
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim
> 

I can do the rendezvous handoff code. It's taking a bit longer than initially planned, mostly because of my terrible time management skills, but it'll definitely be there for 0.2.8.

RSOS is your baby, I'd say focus on that one :-)

Tom

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