Re: [tor-dev] Revising Proposal 140

On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 09:27:38 -0400, Nick Mathewson wrote:

One alternative in this case would be to include non-running relays in the consensus. This would make each individual consensus longer, but (if your guess is right) might make compressed diffs shorter.

That's an interesting idea. We could include non-running relays in the consensus for, say, half a day. I don't know how often do relays temporarily stop running, or how long do they generally do it for - I shall investigate.