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@@ -85,17 +85,19 @@ than Tor at the expense of significantly increased resource requirements, or
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decreased flexibility in application support (typically because of increased
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latency). Such research does not typically abandon aspirations towards
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deployability or utility, but instead tries to maximize deployability and
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-utility subject to a certain degree of anonymity. We believe that these
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+utility subject to a certain degree of inherent anonymity (inherent because
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+usability and practicality affect usage which affects the actual anonymity
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+provided by the network \cite{back01,econymics}). We believe that these
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approaches can be promising and useful, but that by focusing on deploying a
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usable system in the wild, Tor helps us experiment with the actual parameters
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of what makes a system ``practical'' for volunteer operators and ``useful''
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for home users, and helps illuminate undernoticed issues which any deployed
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-volunteer anonymity network will need to address.
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+volunteer anonymity network will need to address.
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While~\cite{tor-design} gives an overall view of the Tor design and goals,
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-this paper describes the policy and technical issues that Tor faces are
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+this paper describes the policy and technical issues that Tor faces as
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we continue deployment. Rather than trying to provide complete solutions
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-to every problem here, we try to lay out the assumptions and constraints
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+to every problem here, we lay out the assumptions and constraints
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that we have observed through deploying Tor in the wild. In doing so, we
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aim to create a research agenda for others to
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help in addressing these issues. Section~\ref{sec:what-is-tor} gives an
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@@ -528,6 +530,8 @@ understand which are actual roadblocks and which are easier to resolve
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than we think. We certainly wouldn't mind if Tor one day is able to
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transport a greater variety of protocols.
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+[paul will work on this]
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+
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\subsection{Mid-latency}
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\label{subsec:mid-latency}
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