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@@ -1616,8 +1616,10 @@ with a session key shared by Alice and Bob.
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As of mid-January 2004, the Tor network consists of 16 nodes
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(14 in the US, 2 in Europe), and more are joining each week as the code
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matures.\footnote{For comparison, the current remailer network
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-has about 30 reliable nodes.} Each node has at least a 768Kb/768Kb
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-connection, and
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+has about 30 reliable nodes. We haven't asked PlanetLab to provide
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+more nodes, since their AUP wouldn't allow exit nodes (see also
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+\cite{darkside}) and because we aim to build a long-term community of
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+node operators.} Each node has at least a 768Kb/768Kb connection, and
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most have 10Mb. The number of users varies (and of course, it's hard to
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tell for sure), but we sometimes have several hundred users---admins at
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several companies have started putting their entire department's web
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@@ -1680,7 +1682,7 @@ just needs to be sufficient to not shed users \cite{econymics,back01}.
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Although Tor's clique topology and full-visibility directories present
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scaling problems, we still expect the network to support a few hundred
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-nodes and perhaps 10,000 users, before we're forced to make the network
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+nodes and perhaps 10,000 users before we're forced to make the network
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more distributed. With luck, the experience we gain running the current
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topology will help us choose among alternatives when the time comes.
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Roger Dingledine