[tor-bugs] #19728 [Core Tor/Tor]: Pick, and deploy, a new bridge authority

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#19728: Pick, and deploy, a new bridge authority
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 Reporter:  arma          |          Owner:
     Type:  task          |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium        |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.8.x-final
Component:  Core Tor/Tor  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal        |     Resolution:
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Comment (by teor):

 Replying to [comment:13 BrassHornComms]:
 > FWIW I am more than happy to host this (
 https://mobile.twitter.com/BrassHornComms/status/755382167706955776 )
 BrassHorn announces IPv6 and IPv4 via its own ASN (AS28715)
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 > Recently some of my relays were added to the fallback dir list (
 https://mobile.twitter.com/BrassHornComms/status/728630564706603008 )
 which I hope goes someway to showing the reliability of my network.

 I just wanted to clarify here - the list you linked to in that tweet was
 an opt-in whitelist. Anyone could opt-in, and we specifically contacted
 operators of stable relays with at least a few megabits of bandwidth.

 Then we ran a script that ranked the opt-in list of relays by bandwidth,
 checked them for reliability, and selected the top 100. That produced the
 0.2.8.5-rc list of fallback directories:
 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor.git/tree/src/or/fallback_dirs.inc

 The Brass Horn relays aren't on the fallback list for 0.2.8.5-rc, because
 the bandwidth cutoff was ~6 Mbps, and the Brass Horn relays that were
 opted in were below that.

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