Hello everyone!

As you might have seen we had announcements on this list a couple of months back about experiments being run on the live Tor network.[1][2]

This shows that our network is quite popular among researchers, which is great. However, it means as well that there are a bunch of questions that might be concerning, like how this in general affects relays, which role the Tor Project should play in this process, how we can be transparent both to our users and our relay community while experiments are running, how we can avoid different experiments, running simultaneously, affecting each other etc. etc.

We therefore sat down a bit and wrote up our thoughts and reasoning on a wiki page[3] which is hopefully helping to answer those questions some of you might have.

Needless to say, feedback is much appreciated as this document is nothing set in stone.

Georg

[1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-May/019649.html [2]https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-May/019672.html [3] https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/network-health/team/-/wikis/Network-experi...