[tor-bugs] #25685 [Core Tor/Tor]: Tor relays publish a new descriptor but authorities drop it because they think it's only cosmetically different, and then the relay waits 18 more hours to publish, thus falling out of the consensus

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#25685: Tor relays publish a new descriptor but authorities drop it because they
think it's only cosmetically different, and then the relay waits 18 more
hours to publish, thus falling out of the consensus
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 Reporter:  arma                  |          Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect                |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                |      Milestone:
Component:  Core Tor/Tor          |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  034-roadmap-proposed  |  Actual Points:
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Comment (by arma):

 Replying to [ticket:25685 arma]:
 > Think about ways to make our relay-side decisions about "is it different
 enough" synchronize better with our dirauth-side decisions.

 One way in which it will hard to make them completely synchronized
 (motivated by the bug report in #23638) is that if the relay restarts,
 when it comes back it has no memory of what it might have published in its
 previous run. That would argue for "make dir auths more lenient" as a
 primary direction to pursue.

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