commit e0c5a0cc07d89f50d14a5161385281e0503fd589 Author: juga0 juga@riseup.net Date: Thu Feb 7 12:32:50 2019 +0000

docs: remove background

if included, it should rather be in a history page. --- docs/source/specification.rst | 31 ------------------------------- 1 file changed, 31 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/specification.rst b/docs/source/specification.rst index 7c5dc1e..51e4c50 100644 --- a/docs/source/specification.rst +++ b/docs/source/specification.rst @@ -1,37 +1,6 @@ Simple Bandwidth Scanner technical details ============================================

-Background ----------- - -Some of the Tor :term:`directory authorities <directory authority>` -run bandwidth scanners to measure the bandwidth of relays and include their -measurements in their network status votes. Clients use the consensus of these -weights to inform their path selection process with the hope that every circuit -they build will have roughly equal performance, regardless of the relays -chosen. This achieves a form of load balancing. - -.. _problem: - -Historically, the directory authorities that ran bandwidth scanners -(:term:`bandwidth authorities <bandwidth authority>`), ran torflow_. Time -passed, it slowly become less maintained, and the collective knowledge of how -it worked slipped away. - -The bandwidth authorities became increasingly unhappy having to run torflow. -Twice yearly Tor Project meetings came and went. Everyone agreed a replacement -was needed, but it was harder to reach consensus on what it should look like -and what its goals where. - -Simple Bandwidth Scanner (sbws) is a project motivated by discussions at the -Rome 2018 Tor Project meeting. It aims to be a quick to implement, -easy to maintain replacement for torflow. It should not receive many fancy -features; instead, developer time should be spent on finding and implementing a -better load balancing solution than bandwidth scanning, such as peerflow_. - -This document describes the implementation contained within the accompanying -``sbws`` package. - Anatomy of a Tor network using sbws -----------------------------------