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				|  |  |  Author: Nick Mathewson
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				|  |  |  Created: 2-Jul-2008
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				|  |  | -Status: Open
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				|  |  | +Status: Accepted
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				|  |  |  Overview
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				|  | @@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ Design:
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				|  |  |    We add a new value for vote-status in v3 consensus documents in
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				|  |  |    addition to "consensus" and "vote": "opinion".  Authorities generate
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				|  |  |    and sign an opinion document as if they were generating a vote,
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				|  |  | -  except that they send it to one another earlier than they send
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				|  |  | -  votes.
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				|  |  | +  except that they generate opinions earlier than they generate votes.
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				|  |  |    Authorities don't need to generate more than one opinion document
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				|  |  |    per voting interval, but may.  They should send it to the other
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				|  | @@ -41,6 +40,13 @@ Design:
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				|  |  |    the authorities begin voting, so that enough time remains for the
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				|  |  |    authorities to fetch new descriptors.
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				|  |  | +  Additionally, authories make their opinions available at
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				|  |  | +     http://<hostname>/tor/status-vote/next/opinion.z
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				|  |  | +  and download opinions from authorties they haven't heard from in a
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				|  |  | +  while.
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				|  |  | +  Authorities MAY generate opinions on demand.
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				|  |  |    Upon receiving an opinion document, authorities scan it for any
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				|  |  |    descriptors that:
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				|  |  |       - They might accept.
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