On Apr 10, 2015, at 1:58 PM, George Kadianakis <desnacked@riseup.net> wrote:

I’m actually drafting a diff regards the sorts of thing where you’re discussing nomenclature; but I am new to the Tor codebase and would love having someone (and, perhaps, and IRC forum?) with whom/where I could chat/ask about which-bits-do-what?

Work in progress at http://pastebin.com/Pza1uyfm - but this is all scratch, very incomplete, and predates this discussion.  

I am working from the position that a “direct” onion (for the moment I’ve been using the work “brazen” - opposing “hidden” - but “direct” is more attractively mundane) does not need triple-hop circuits for everything.  I am starting to get a handle on which code sets up the outbound links to the IP and RP, but I would really love to bounce some ideas off folks who have more experience of the code.

    -a