commit b155c2e13d96c204121503df9e5aa22d30f3f9da Author: teor teor2345@gmail.com Date: Wed Jul 18 11:15:42 2018 +1000

dir-spec: Authorities should only read V3BandwidthsFile once per vote

Closes 26827. --- dir-spec.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dir-spec.txt b/dir-spec.txt index 7da4c9a..8da28c4 100644 --- a/dir-spec.txt +++ b/dir-spec.txt @@ -2631,6 +2631,10 @@

http://<hostname>/tor/status-vote/next/authority.z

+ To avoid inconsistent reads, authorities SHOULD only read the bandwidth + file once per voting period. Further processing and serving SHOULD use a + cached copy. + The bandwidth list format is described in bandwidth-file-spec.txt.

The standard URLs for bandwidth list files first-appeared in Tor 0.3.5.