Re: [tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

2014-05-01 Thread Daniel Martí
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:37:12 -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > I think the only change we'll need for this case is to add URLs for > the microdescriptor consensus diffs. Cool. > This nice thing about this approach is that the client doesn't need to > know whether the directory supports consensus

Re: [tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

2014-05-01 Thread Daniel Martí
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:27:38 -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote: > One alternative in this case would be to include non-running relays in > the consensus. This would make each individual consensus longer, but > (if your guess is right) might make compressed diffs shorter. That's an interesting idea.

Re: [tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

2014-05-01 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Daniel Martí wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Last week I introduced myself [0] on this list, shortly after being > accepted into GSoC to work on Consensus Diffs. My GSoC proposal is > heavily based on the Tor proposal #140 [1], which is close to being six > years old n

Re: [tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

2014-05-01 Thread Nick Mathewson
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 4:17 AM, Roger Dingledine wrote: > On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:02:30AM +0200, Daniel Martí wrote: >> * Regarding their size, #140 suggests that they are not useful past 16 >> hours. I thought we could compare the compressed size of the diffs >> when creating them, since t

Re: [tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

2014-05-01 Thread Roger Dingledine
On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 10:02:30AM +0200, Daniel Martí wrote: > * Regarding their size, #140 suggests that they are not useful past 16 > hours. I thought we could compare the compressed size of the diffs > when creating them, since they may be of use for a longer time. We > could do this rela

[tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

2014-05-01 Thread Daniel Martí
Hello everyone, Last week I introduced myself [0] on this list, shortly after being accepted into GSoC to work on Consensus Diffs. My GSoC proposal is heavily based on the Tor proposal #140 [1], which is close to being six years old now. This is why, after some discussion with Nick, Sebastian and