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