Re: [tor-dev] Revised Relay Descriptor Fields proposal

2014-07-14 Thread isis
Damian Johnson transcribed 1.1K bytes: > This is for extrainfo descriptors, not server descriptors. Do bridges > publish extrainfo descriptors? Oh. That wasn't clear to me from the proposal, but I must have simply missed it. Yes, bridges do publish extrainfo descriptors. BridgeDB parses those as

Re: [tor-dev] Revised Relay Descriptor Fields proposal

2014-07-14 Thread Damian Johnson
> 0. Does this proposal include adding these additional `X-*` fields to > the `@type bridge-server-descriptor`s as well? Or only to the > non-bridge server-descriptors? This is for extrainfo descriptors, not server descriptors. Do bridges publish extrainfo descriptors? > 1. Why 5KB? > >

Re: [tor-dev] Revised Relay Descriptor Fields proposal

2014-07-14 Thread isis
Ian Goldberg transcribed 1.2K bytes: > > There may need to be a maximum sum length of the X- entries. This is > > left to the developers. I propose a maximum sum length of 5 kilobytes. A couple questions: 0. Does this proposal include adding these additional `X-*` fields to the `@type bri

Re: [tor-dev] Revised Relay Descriptor Fields proposal

2014-07-04 Thread David Stainton
Virgil, why does your below example have a bitcoin field? Perhaps you should rephrase your motivation more plainly to something like: """ Hello, I'm a bitcoin capitalist profiteer and I wish to disturb the existing power structures within the Tor Project community with my capitalist bitcoin pro

Re: [tor-dev] Revised Relay Descriptor Fields proposal

2014-07-04 Thread Ian Goldberg
Just some spec-level nitpicking. On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 10:22:59AM +0200, Virgil Griffith wrote: > The value field must be printable ASCII (characters 32-126). Presumably all values are literal? There's no special meaning to ", \, etc.? > The value must not under any condition contain a newlin

Re: [tor-dev] Revised Relay Descriptor Fields proposal

2014-07-04 Thread Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)
This extension could be very useful for the Tor2web project, in order to easily introduce "directory" functionalities for join/leave/networking capabilities as per https://github.com/globaleaks/Tor2web-3.0/issues/41 . That would be *amazing* . I'm going to bring Italian Grappa with express-shippi

[tor-dev] Revised Relay Descriptor Fields proposal

2014-07-04 Thread Virgil Griffith
Filename: ExtraRelayDescriptorFields.txt Title: Adding new X- fields to relay descriptor Author: Virgil Griffith, Nick Mathewson Created: 2014-06-03 Status: Open 1. Motivation We wish to allow developers to build new applications atop relays. Towards this end, we wish to add the ability for users