Roger Dingledine:
- Should we prefer big collectives like torservers, noisetor, CCC,
dfri.se, and riseup (which can get great bulk rates on bandwidth and are big enough to have relationships with local lawyers and ISPs), or should we prefer individuals since they maximize our operator diversity? I think "explore both approaches" is a fine first plan.
You should explore both approaches, but expect that individuals that haven't run an exit before - but are willing to do so - could require more support.
I could imagine that interested people would be concerned about abuse complaints. Finding an reasonable ISP is another problem. I'm quite confident that the Tor community would assist, but don't know how it could be organized.
- Does the overall Tor network change legal categories in some
country, e.g. becoming a telecommunications service when it wasn't before?
I wonder what would happen when Tor had "official abuse devisions", where some people care about the abuse complaints the Tor network "produces". Compared to "TelcoUK" and "TelcoUS" where each "Telco" reacts to abuse complaints. Could that make Tor a telecommunications service?
Everything else has mostly said, I guess.
Regards, Sebastian