On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Virgil Griffith <i@virgil.gr> wrote:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3308162/ExtraRelayDescriptorFields.txt Fulltext below. Comments appreciated. Title: Adding new X- fields to relay descriptor Author: Virgil Griffith, Nick Mathewson
1. Motivation We wish to allow developers to build new applications atop relays. Towards this end, we wish to add the ability for users to specify arbitrary new key-value entries under the "X-" namespace. For example: X-bitcoin 19mP9FKrXqL46Si58pHdhGKow88SUPy1V8 X-gravatar https://s.gravatar.com/avatar/d27fce46c9ac41a41bb52455ae75701d X-nameid virgil.gr X-favoritequote Be excellent to each other. Party on dudes!
I remember posting about bastardizing the contact field for things like this that others had mentioned. Thanks for putting a more formal idea out. You probably want to move the existing 'contact' to 'X-contact' too. Perhaps also for any non strictly required to operate stuff like nickname, and OS version string (which to the extent it is useful to the project might be a non overridable auto populated k-v pair). Removing the spaces from fingerprint would be nice and save bandwidth too. You'd need dual parsing for one revision period.