28 May
2015
28 May
'15
11:21 a.m.
On 26/04/15 23:14, John Brooks wrote:
It occurred to me that with proposal 224, there’s no longer a clear reason to use both HSDirs and introduction points. I think we could select the IP in the same way that we plan to select HSDirs, and bypass needing descriptors entirely.
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One notable loss is that we won’t be able to use legacy relays as IP, which the current proposal tries to do. Another difference is that we’ll select IPs uniformly, instead of by bandwidth weight - I think this doesn’t create new problems, because being a HSDir is just as intensive.
A quick thought: to select IPs by bandwidth weight, divide each IP into one or more slices depending on its bandwidth, then select slices instead of selecting IPs directly.
Cheers, Michael