From 0ada963ef6fd10067630b8c9661372f419ab44e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roger Dingledine Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 05:53:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] add a whole lot more work to the todo. svn:r6762 --- doc/TODO | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/TODO b/doc/TODO index 440f31ed92..7b2e99e066 100644 --- a/doc/TODO +++ b/doc/TODO @@ -81,7 +81,29 @@ R - remember the last time we saw one of our entry guards labelled with (bug 200) - Have a "Faster" status flag that means it. Fast2, Fast4, Fast8? + - A more efficient dir protocol. + - Clients stop dumping old descriptors if the network-statuses + claim they're still valid. + - Later, servers will stop generating new descriptors simply + because 18 hours have passed. + - Authorities should fetch the network-statuses amongst each + other, consensus them, and advertise a communal network-status. + This is not so much for safety/complexity as it is to reduce + bandwidth requirements for Alice. + - How does this interact with our goal of being able to choose + your own dir authorities? I guess we're now assuming that all + dir authorities know all the other authorities in their "group"? + - Should we also look into a "delta since last network-status + checkpoint" scheme, to reduce overhead further? + - Extend the "r" line in network-status to give a set of buckets (say, + comma-separated) for that router. + - Buckets are deterministic based on IP address. + - Then clients can choose a bucket (or set of buckets) to + download and use. + - Critical but minor bugs, backport candiates. + - If the client's clock is too far in the past, it will drop (or + just not try to get) descriptors, so it'll never build circuits. R - Failed rend desc fetches sometimes don't get retried. - If we fail to connect via an exit enclave, (warn and) try again without demanding that exit node. @@ -127,6 +149,8 @@ M - rewrite how libevent does select() on win32 so it's not so very slow. N - Exitlist should avoid outputting the same IP address twice. N - Write path-spec.txt + - Break the dir v1 stuff out of tor-spec.txt into dir-spec-v1.txt, + and change the new dir-spec.txt to dir-spec-v2.txt. - Packaging - Tell people about OSX Uninstaller @@ -148,6 +172,12 @@ Topics to think about during 0.1.2.x development: - Figure out hidden services. Minor items for 0.1.2.x as time permits. + - We should ship with a list of stable dir mirrors -- they're not + trusted like the authorities, but they'll provide more robustness + and diversity for bootstrapping clients. + - Rate limit exit connections to a given destination -- this helps + us play nice with websites when Tor users want to crawl them; it + also introduces DoS opportunities. - The bw_accounting file should get merged into the state file. - Streamline how we define a guard node as 'up'. - Better installers and build processes.