On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Roger Dingledine <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 01:08:03PM +0100, Karsten Loesing wrote: >> I talked to Roger on IRC, and here's why this proposal may indeed be >> overkill: >> >> As of January 2013, there is only a single version 3 directory authority >> left that serves version 2 statuses: dizum. moria1 and tor26 have been >> rejecting version 2 requests for a long time, and it's mostly an >> oversight that dizum still serves them. The other six authorities have >> never generated version 2 statuses for others to be used as pre-voting >> opinions. So, it's basically not true that version 2 statuses are >> required for the version 3 protocol to work properly. > > See git commits 2e692bd8 and eaf5487d, which went into 0.2.2.12-alpha: > o Major bugfixes: > - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because > not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get > a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol, > we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each > other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3 > vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix > on 0.2.1.23. > > That was the stopgap that made proposal 147 not so critical. I think > based on Karsten's recent results that maybe it's enough.
Sounds good to me. Is this in dir-spec.txt? I'm not finding it at first glance. If it isn't, Karsten, would you be able to add it? Probably we should do that _after_ merging your dirspec branch. -- Nick _______________________________________________ tor-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-dev
