r15617@catbus: nickm | 2007-10-09 22:30:22 -0400

Add small comments to a couple of proposals.


svn:r11827

doc/spec/proposals/118-multiple-orports.txt

@@ -51,5 +51,16 @@ add in better ideas, etc.
     between them when they get extend cells to the same server on
     different ports.
 
+    - Suggested rule:
+      - If we're told to extend to IP:Port:ID, and we have a connection
+        to some server with ID, and we have confirmed that the server
+        likes the address we originally used when connecting to it (via
+        means in proposal 105), then use the existing connection.
+      - If we're told to extend to IP:Port:ID, and we have a descriptor
+        for the ID, and we have a connection to some server with ID,
+        and the existing connection is to an address listed as valid
+        in the descriptor, then use the existing connection.
+      - Otherwise, use a new connection.
+
   - How this all interacts with coderman's ipv6 stuff (proposal 117).
 

doc/spec/proposals/120-suicide-descriptors.txt

@@ -74,3 +74,11 @@ Acknowledgements:
 
   tup suggested this idea.
 
+Comments:
+
+  1) Don't name the official feature "suicide descriptors".  Suicide is
+     irreversible, and the concept pushes many people's buttons. How about
+     "shutdown descriptors"?
+  2) Maybe add a rule "Don't do this for hibernation if we expect to wake
+     up before the next consensus is published"?
+                                                      - NM 9 Oct 2007