On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 12:39 PM nusenu nusenu-lists@riseup.net wrote:
Hi,
has this proposal any implications wrt to making the MiddleOnly feature available to clients (without requiring DA actions)?
With ExcludeExitNodes/ExitNodes + ExcludeGuardNodes [1] tor clients basically can get the "MiddleOnly" feature without DA actions, but ExcludeGuardNodes [1] is not there yet. This is why I'm asking.
[1] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/merge_requests/436
I don't think it would especially help or prevent a MiddleOnly/ExcludeGuard feature for clients.
## Generating votes
When voting for a relay with the `MiddleOnly` flag, an authority should set all flags indicating that a relay is unusable for a particular purpose, and against all flags indicating that the relay is usable for a particular position.
This part was not clear to me, but if I ignore it, the rest makes sense. It is not clear because it says an authority should set _all_ flags to indicate that a relay is unusable for a particular purpose.
Ooops, that should say that the authority should vote for all "this relay is unusable" flags, and against all "this relay is usable for a non-middle purpose" flags. I'll edit.