[tor-relays] Re: Looking to interview Tor relay operators (online or at FOSDEM)

Hello,

On 20. Jan 2026, at 16:05, Jules Dejaeghere via tor-relays <tor-relays@lists.torproject.org> wrote:

I am a researcher at the University of Namur (Belgium), and some of our research focuses on Tor. Recently, we started to investigate how Tor relay operators install and keep their relays up to date. This research was motivated by the (somewhat recent) policy of the Tor Project to exclude outdated relays from the network.

What do you mean with "somewhat recent"? This has been done since at least 2011 for security reasons, for compatibility reasons much longer. Cheers Sebastian