On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Ian Goldberg iang@cs.uwaterloo.ca wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 07:50:09PM +0000, Jacob Appelbaum wrote:
Sounds like a plan. I prefer bridge by default, but we can discuss that later.
What's the rational there? While we certainly need more bridges, I'd like
to
see an increase in relays and encourage more Friend of Friend bridge sharing. We should include a bunch of common configs and make it easy to setup. Also, a public relay will be much easier to help with in terms of setup, I suspect.
Doesn't "make random people into public (middle-only) relays" have the (well maybe not "problem", but "issue"?) that when GFW blocks them, they (the random people who bought an Excito/etc.) won't be able to connect to anything in .cn any more? Although I don't _often_ connect to .cn domains, it seems unfortunate to effectively auto-ban these people from Chinese websites.
Yes, it might. It depends on which part of the GFW you're connecting through. Also, I believe the same is true for public bridge nodes as well. The main difference is that the bridges may not be as useful as the relays and I suspect they will also be less easy to troubleshoot for reach-ability reasons.
In an ideal world, we'll write an enumeration of issues or benefits that arise from the different modes of helping.
All the best, Jake