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@@ -81,7 +81,29 @@ R - remember the last time we saw one of our entry guards labelled with
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(bug 200)
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- Have a "Faster" status flag that means it. Fast2, Fast4, Fast8?
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+ - A more efficient dir protocol.
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+ - Clients stop dumping old descriptors if the network-statuses
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+ claim they're still valid.
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+ - Later, servers will stop generating new descriptors simply
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+ because 18 hours have passed.
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+ - Authorities should fetch the network-statuses amongst each
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+ other, consensus them, and advertise a communal network-status.
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+ This is not so much for safety/complexity as it is to reduce
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+ bandwidth requirements for Alice.
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+ - How does this interact with our goal of being able to choose
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+ your own dir authorities? I guess we're now assuming that all
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+ dir authorities know all the other authorities in their "group"?
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+ - Should we also look into a "delta since last network-status
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+ checkpoint" scheme, to reduce overhead further?
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+ - Extend the "r" line in network-status to give a set of buckets (say,
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+ comma-separated) for that router.
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+ - Buckets are deterministic based on IP address.
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+ - Then clients can choose a bucket (or set of buckets) to
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+ download and use.
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+
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- Critical but minor bugs, backport candiates.
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+ - If the client's clock is too far in the past, it will drop (or
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+ just not try to get) descriptors, so it'll never build circuits.
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R - Failed rend desc fetches sometimes don't get retried.
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- If we fail to connect via an exit enclave, (warn and) try again
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without demanding that exit node.
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@@ -127,6 +149,8 @@ M - rewrite how libevent does select() on win32 so it's not so very slow.
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N - Exitlist should avoid outputting the same IP address twice.
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N - Write path-spec.txt
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+ - Break the dir v1 stuff out of tor-spec.txt into dir-spec-v1.txt,
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+ and change the new dir-spec.txt to dir-spec-v2.txt.
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- Packaging
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- Tell people about OSX Uninstaller
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@@ -148,6 +172,12 @@ Topics to think about during 0.1.2.x development:
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- Figure out hidden services.
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Minor items for 0.1.2.x as time permits.
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+ - We should ship with a list of stable dir mirrors -- they're not
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+ trusted like the authorities, but they'll provide more robustness
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+ and diversity for bootstrapping clients.
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+ - Rate limit exit connections to a given destination -- this helps
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+ us play nice with websites when Tor users want to crawl them; it
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+ also introduces DoS opportunities.
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- The bw_accounting file should get merged into the state file.
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- Streamline how we define a guard node as 'up'.
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- Better installers and build processes.
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Roger Dingledine