As part of my new role as Tor's Research Janitor, I'm a bit more detached from the network team, but still working with them, and also working more with several other teams. Isa suggested that I write monthly progress reports here instead of at all those meetings. This seems reasonable to me. The meeting fatigue struggle is real.

Planned for January: - Congestion control review - Mozilla All Hands meeting in Berlin - Research Janitor role description draft + review - Metrics roadmap planning assistance

Actually did in January: - Read a shit-ton about the congestion control history of TCP and Tor - Wrote this epic mail about congestion control options for Tor: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-dev/2020-January/014140.html - Attended the Mozilla All Hands meeting in Berlin - Reviewed Cecylia's snowflake traffic analysis mail - Brainstormed Research Janitor roles, discussed them with folks - Started planning the Research Janitor's 2020 Goals - Helped roadmap the metrics team's onionperf improvements - Worked on cleaning up metrics to analyze Rob's relay experiment:

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-scaling/2019-December/000077.html (thread)

February plans: - More metrics + graph analysis for Rob's experiment - Iterate on sbws eval metrics + graphs w/ Karsten - Funding proposal assistance - Tor Performance Pipeline R&D migration to gitlab

Blockers: - Nothing stands in my way!

At Risk of Dropping: - Fixing circpad bugs that impact external padding research - Various mails about circuit padding docs + research options