[tor-bugs] #7177 [Torflow]: Understand how accurate the bandwidth authority estimates are

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#7177: Understand how accurate the bandwidth authority estimates are
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 Reporter:  karsten   |          Owner:  aagbsn
     Type:  project   |         Status:  new   
 Priority:  normal    |      Milestone:        
Component:  Torflow   |        Version:        
 Keywords:  SponsorZ  |         Parent:        
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 (Re-using text from Roger and Mike for this ticket description.)

 It would be good to have a better understanding of how accurate the
 bandwidth authority estimates are.  Why do some really fast relays get
 huge weights, and other really fast relays don't?  Does it have to do with
 location of the measurers?  What exactly is the trade-off between having
 fast nodes all nearby each other (and nearby the bandwidth authorities) in
 the network, and having nodes in geographically dispersed places?

 We probably should figure out a way for the bandwidth authorities to
 utilize per-node as well as ambient circuit failure (#7023, #7037).

 There's a bunch of related stuff for TCP socket exhaustion, too.  All of
 it probably involves some fairly diligent monitoring of results and
 experimentation though.

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