22 Jul
2014
22 Jul
'14
4:20 p.m.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 02:19:27PM +0300, George Kadianakis wrote:
Here are some ideas on various achievements/badges that could be awarded to relay operators (in no particular order):
- You earned a flag (fast/hsdir/stable/named/exit)!
- Your uptime is over 9000 (seconds/days/months)!
- You are part of a family!
- You have the contact field set!
- With PGP!
- With a BTC address!
- You are part of an organization (torservers/etc.)!
- You are in an exotic location! (not many relays there)
- You have IPv6 enabled!
- You are running an experimental Tor version!
- You are a bridge with many clients from China!
- You are an obfsbridge!
You can imagine more special achievements, like:
- You were around during event X! (arab spring, etc.)
- You were the top guard during event X!
- You were the first big relay ever in Lithuania!
- You were in the top 10 exits.
- You survived an hour of anarchy! (awarded when the authorities fail to establish a consensus for an hour)
etc.
Wow. Nice ideas. I'm a fan, if somebody wants to make this happen.
One point that you might trip over if you move this forward: you will eventually wish you had implemented proposal 230 https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git/blob/HEAD:/proposals/230-rsa1024-r... or something like it, else relays with many cool badges might be reluctant to discard their identity keys next time we get hit by something like Heartbleed.
--Roger