Hi,
I have an updated proposal which addresses your concerns, along with David Goulet's comments on GitLab.
On 2021-09-07 12:47, s7r wrote:
Hi Neel,
Please add a "MOTIVATION" section and explain in detail why is this needed for the network/heath team and how will it improve things? Also include in the "MOTIVATION" section the following:
- Why not play with the Exit/Guard to achieve the same goal, why not
possible? what is the goal -- we need to know the goal to further discuss this.
I have an updated proposal which addresses your concerns, along with David Goulet's comments on GitLab.
- It's something at Directory Authority Level only? So the client /
relay operator has no decision whatsoever for this flag? What are the tie breakers or based on what is this assigned?
This is something assigned at the dirauth-level.
- How will this work in a wonderful feature I am dreaming of where all
the relays are Exits and maybe we make walking onions working?
I believe it shouldn't affect these scenarios, but have mentioned we should look out for them.
P.S. Rendezvous point is NOT a less powerful position (at least from an onion service server/operator point of view), unless you are using vanguards plugin by Mike with rendguard component activated. Because it's always chosen by the client connecting to the onion service, and we should assume the client is always ~LE~ evil. Trust me on this :)
I have also updated this to be a strictly Middle-only flag, and am not giving rendezvous capabilities to MiddleOnly relays.
Sorry about this, but I have taken more-or-less a so-called "break" from Tor development for a while. I am technically a volunteer, and my $DAYJOB is at "Big Tech" (don't judge, that's where I found work).
I also got FreeBSD "commit bit" (not every Tor developer uses Debian) which took time away from Tor volunteer efforts. I am only getting back to Tor development as of the past week or two, so I need to refresh my memory.
Going back, this update also completes the missing paragraph reported by Ian, that seemed to miss me in the original proposal.
-Neel Chauhan